CVE-2015-5313
N/A
Published: April 11, 2016 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibvirt
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.
Remediation
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References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174404.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0004.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-10Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00473.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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