CVE-2010-2242
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CVE-2010-2242
Red Hat libvirt 0.2.0 through 0.8.2 creates iptables rules with improper mappings of privileged source ports, which allows guest OS users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging IP address and source-port values, as demonstrated by copying and deleting an NFS directory tree.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
August 19, 2010
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
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04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2010-2242
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Red Hat libvirt 0.2.0 through 0.8.2 creates iptables rules with improper mappings of privileged source ports, which allows guest OS users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging IP address and source-port values, as demonstrated by copying and deleting an NFS directory tree.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0615.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2062
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/591943
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602455