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CVE-2020-15708

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Version 20.04

Weakness classification

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