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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:35:22 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- libguestfs: virt-edit doesn't preserve
 file permissions

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On 06/11/2012 10:21 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Description of the problem: virt-edit creates a new file when it is
> used and thus does not preserve file permissions, file owner and
> SELinux context on the files that it was editing.
> 
> As a consequence, if certain security-sensitive files in the guest 
> were edited using virt-edit, they would become world-readable.
> 
> Proposed upstream patch: 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-February/msg00034.html
>
>  References: 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-February/msg00033.html
>
> 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788642
> 
> Thanks,

Please use CVE-2012-2690 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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