Bug 420805 (CVE-2012-2690)

Summary:	app-emulation/libguestfs : "virt-edit" File Permissions Security Issue (CVE-2012-2690)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	andreis.vinogradovs, maksbotan, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://secunia.com/advisories/49431/
Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-06-12 09:59:54 UTC

From secunia security advisory at $URL:

Description
A security issue has been reported in libguestfs, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the "virt-edit" utility not keeping original file permissions when editing a file inside a virtual machine image, which results in world-readable permissions being set.

The security issue is reported in version 1.16.4. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 1.16.24.

Comment 1 Maxim Koltsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-26 16:11:37 UTC

All vulnerable versions were cleaned.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-06-26 16:15:30 UTC

Thanks, fixed