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Ubuntu: USN-2867-1 (CVE-2015-5313): libvirt vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2867-1 (CVE-2015-5313): libvirt vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt0

References

  • USN-2867-1
  • RHSA-2016:2577
  • 90913
  • GLSA-201612-10
  • CVE-2015-5313

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