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Bug 420805 (CVE-2012-2690) - app-emulation/libguestfs : "virt-edit" File Permissions Security Issue (CVE-2012-2690)
Summary: app-emulation/libguestfs : "virt-edit" File Permissions Security Issue (CVE-2...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2012-2690
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/49431/
Whiteboard: ~4 [noglsa]
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Reported: 2012-06-12 09:59 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2012-06-26 16:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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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