Low severity2.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-5313
CVE-2015-5313
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.
Patches
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References
7- security.libvirt.org/2015/0004.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- libvirt.org/git/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174404.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/90913nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-10nvd
- www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00473.htmlnvd
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