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CVE-2014-7823: dumpxml: security hole with migratable flag
Commit 28f8dfd (v1.0.0) introduced a security hole: in at least the qemu implementation of virDomainGetXMLDesc, the use of the flag VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE (which is usable from a read-only connection) triggers the implicit use of VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE prior to calling qemuDomainFormatXML. However, the use of VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE is supposed to be restricted to read-write clients only. This patch treats the migratable flag as requiring the same permissions, rather than analyzing what might break if migratable xml no longer includes secret information. Fortunately, the information leak is low-risk: all that is gated by the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag is the VNC connection password; but VNC passwords are already weak (FIPS forbids their use, and on a non-FIPS machine, anyone stupid enough to trust a max-8-byte password sent in plaintext over the network deserves what they get). SPICE offers better security than VNC, and all other secrets are properly protected by use of virSecret associations rather than direct output in domain XML. * src/remote/remote_protocol.x (REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_GET_XML_DESC): Tighten rules on use of migratable flag. * src/libvirt-domain.c (virDomainGetXMLDesc): Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit b1674ad5a97441b7e1bd5f5ebaff498ef2fbb11b) Conflicts: src/libvirt-domain.c - file split from older src/libvirt.c; context with older virLibConnError src/remote/remote_protocol.x - no fine-grained ACLs Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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