GSD-2020-15708

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
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