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Ubuntu: USN-4452-1 (CVE-2020-15708): libvirt vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4452-1 (CVE-2020-15708): libvirt vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/04/2020
Created
08/07/2020
Added
08/05/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-daemon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-system
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt0

References

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