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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:24:25 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: Bastian Blank <waldi@...ian.org>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: libvirt kvm-group writable storage

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On 02/25/2013 12:36 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi
> 
> libvirtd in privileged (root) mode runs qemu/kvm guests with a
> different user. It set owner/group of storage used by this guests
> to this user and group. In Debian this is libvirt-qemu:kvm.
> 
> | brw-rw---T 1 libvirt-qemu kvm  254, 11 Feb 25 17:08 /dev/dm-11 |
> brw-rw---T 1 libvirt-qemu kvm  254, 12 Feb 25 17:50 /dev/dm-12
> 
> The kvm group is used for generic access control on /dev/kvm, so a
> lot of users may have access to this group.
> 
> | crw-rw---T 1 root kvm 10, 232 Feb 25 18:04 kvm
> 
> This allows write access to unrelated users to this storage.
> 
> Affected is at least Debian Squeeze (0.8.3-5+squeeze2) and Debian 
> experimental (1.0.1-2). Reference is http://bugs.debian.org/701649
> 
> Please assign a CVE.
> 
> Bastian
> 

Please use CVE-2013-1766 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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