National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5086
Original release date:12/19/2008
Last revised:04/02/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple methods in libvirt 0.3.2 through 0.5.1 do not check if a connection is read-only, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and perform administrative actions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 32905
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [libvirt] 20081217 [SECURITY] PATCH: Fix missing read-only access checks (CVE-2008-5086)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476560
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-694-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0382
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-11433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34397
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33292
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33217
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33198
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50919
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004