CVE-2010-2238: Libvirt

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Libvirt Libvirt: version 0.7.2 only; version 0.7.3 only; version 0.7.4 only; version 0.7.5 only; version 0.7.6 only; version 0.7.7 only; …

Published 2010-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.