PT-2012-4183 · Red Hat+1 · Libguestfs+2

Published 2012-06-19 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-2690

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libguestfs versions prior to 1.18.0

Description The issue allows local guest users to potentially obtain sensitive information due to the failure of virt-edit to preserve the original file permissions when editing, resulting in the new file being saved with world-readable permissions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.18.0, update to version 1.18.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-255

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0774

CVE-2012-2690

RHSA-2012:0774

RHSA-2012_0774

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Libguestfs

References · 19

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0774.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2690 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2690 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2690 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2690 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0774.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49545 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2690 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0774.html · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-July/080872.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76220 · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-July/068185.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-May/msg00104.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53932 · Note