CVE-2010-2239: Libvirt

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

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Libvirt Libvirt: version 0.6.0 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.6.2 only; version 0.6.3 only; version 0.6.4 only; version 0.6.5 only; …

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