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CVE-2019-10167 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libvirt), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 5, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.
The virConnectGetDomainCapabilities() libvirt API, versions 4.x.x before 4.10.1 and 5.x.x before 5.4.1, accepts an "emulatorbin" argument to specify the program providing emulation for a domain. Since v1.2.19, libvirt will execute that program to probe the domain's capabilities. Read-only clients could specify an arbitrary path for this argument, causing libvirtd to execute a crafted executable with its own privileges.