CVE-2026-63622: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2026-5.0-90-0855

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2026-5.0-90-0855. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-63622

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0268

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0268. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-63623

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by...

CVE-2026-63623: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

PT-2026-69971

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libvirt affected versions not specified Description A symlink-following flaw exists in the virFileChownFiles function. A local attacker operating as the confined swtpm user can place a symbolic link in the swtpm state directory to trick the...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2024-5.0-92-0286

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-92-0286. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2024-5.0-92-0246

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-92-0246. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0246

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0246. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Libvirt PHSA-2023-5.0-92-0057

An update of the libvirt package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-5.0-92-0057. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-61478

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - libvirt: newline injection in network xml dns txt/srv fields allows dnsmasq config directive injection CVE-2026-61477 libvirt: Check for empty string condition...

PT-2026-80168

It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled guest reboots in the libxl driver. An attacker in a guest could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2021-4147 Alexander Kuznetsov discovere...

AZL-95478 CVE-2026-61477 affecting package libvirt for versions less than 11.9.0-1

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...

CVE-2026-61477

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...

CVE-2026-61477 Libvirt: libvirt: newline injection in network xml dns txt/srv fields allows dnsmasq config directive injection

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...

EUVD-2026-54487

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...

CVE-2026-61477

Libvirt vulnerability CVE-2026-61477 affects the libvirt virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record values and SRV domain/target attributes, causing these values to be written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration. This enables a user wh...

CVE-2026-61477

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...

CVE-2026-61477

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the...