| Name | CVE-2020-15708 |
| Description | Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libvirt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.2.9-9+deb8u8 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.0.0-4+deb9u5 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.0-4+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.0.0-4+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 7.0.0-3+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.0.0-4+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.9.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libvirt | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- libvirt <not-affected> (Ubuntu specific issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866270#c2
Debian used to use polkit in 1.2.9-rc1-1 and only later on
enabled as well libvirtd socket activation. Ubuntu OTOH continued
to ship the Allow-libvirt-group-to-access-the-socket.patch patch
which caused the CVE-2020-15708 issue.
Upstream improved documentation in with:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-August/msg00360.html