CVE-2011-2178
N/A
Published: August 10, 2011 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibvirt
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
The virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData function in security/security_manager.c in libvirt 0.8.8 through 0.9.1 uses the wrong argument for a sizeof call, which causes incorrect processing of "security manager private data" that "reopens disk probing" and might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2010-2238 regression.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (8)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00030.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01935.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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