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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-10166: Security patch for libvirt (ALAS-2019-1274)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-10166: Security patch for libvirt (ALAS-2019-1274)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/02/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

It was discovered that libvirtd, versions 4.x.x before 4.10.1 and 5.x.x before 5.4.1, would permit readonly clients to use the virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML() API, which would permit them to modify managed save state files. If a managed save had already been created by a privileged user, a local attacker could modify this file such that libvirtd would execute an arbitrary program when the domain was resumed.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-admin
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-bash-completion
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-client
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-network
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-network
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-secret
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-kvm
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-lxc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-docs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-lock-sanlock
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-login-shell
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libvirt-nss

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