CVE-2010-2238

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Libvirt: 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.5, 0.7.6, 0.7.7 (+3)

References

http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html

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