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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-10168): libvirt vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 20, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU() and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU() libvirt APIs, 4.x.x before 4.10.1 and 5.x.x before 5.4.1, accept an "emulator" argument to specify the program providing emulation for a domain. Since v1.2.19, libvirt will execute that program to probe the domain's capabilities. Read-only clients could specify an arbitrary path for this argument, causing libvirtd to execute a crafted executable with its own privileges.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-binubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-clientsubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-daemonubuntu-upgrade-libvirt0
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