Arbitrary Command Execution

libvirt is vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution. The virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU libvirt APIs accept an "emulator" argument to specify the program providing emulation for a domain. An attacker could specify an arbitrary path for this argument, causing...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: libvirt-4.7.0-5.fc29

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other OSes. The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: libvirt-5.1.0-9.fc30

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other OSes. The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support...

Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2019-b2dfb13daf

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4047-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 29 : libvirt (2019-9210998aaa)

CVE-2019-10161: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API bz 1722463, bz 1720115 - CVE-2019-10166: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients bz 1722462, bz 1720114 - CVE-2019-10167: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API bz...

Fedora 30 : libvirt (2019-b2dfb13daf)

CVE-2019-10161: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API bz 1722463, bz 1720115 - CVE-2019-10166: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients bz 1722462, bz 1720114 - CVE-2019-10167: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API bz...

RHEL 7 : redhat-virtualization-host (RHSA-2019:1699)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1699 advisory. The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-4047-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4047-1 advisory. Matthias Gerstner and Jn Tomko discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain API calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-4047-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

Matthias Gerstner and Ján Tomko discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain API calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to check for arbitrary files, or execute arbitrary binaries. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile...

USN-4047-1 libvirt vulnerabilities

Matthias Gerstner and Ján Tomko discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain API calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to check for arbitrary files, or execute arbitrary binaries. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile...

libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU APIs

The virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU libvirt APIs 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...

libvirt: arbitrary file read/exec via virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API

It was discovered that libvirtd would permit read-only clients to use the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API, specifying an arbitrary path which would be accessed with the permissions of the libvirtd process. An attacker with access to the libvirtd socket could use this to probe the existence of...

libvirt: arbitrary command execution via virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API

The virConnectGetDomainCapabilities libvirt API accepts an "emulatorbin" 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,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: redhat-virtualization-host security and enhancement update

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

libvirt: virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML API exposed to readonly clients

It was discovered that libvirtd 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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libvirt (EulerOS-SA-2019-1684)

According to the version of the libvirt packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt in the way it gets interface information through the QEMU agent. An attacker in a guest ...

openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (openSUSE-2019-1672)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-10161: Fixed virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API which could accept a path parameter pointing anywhere on the system and potentially leading to execution of a malicious file with root privileges by libvirtd...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for libvirt (openSUSE-SU-2019:1672-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1672-1 Security update for libvirt

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-10161: Fixed virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API which could accept a path parameter pointing anywhere on the system and potentially leading to execution of a malicious file with root privileges by libvirtd...