CVE-2010-2239

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 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Libvirt: 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 (+11)

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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0615.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2062
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607812
http://libvirt.org/news.html

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