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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Eric Blake c9450f4f85 CVE-2015-5313: storage: don't allow '/' in filesystem volume names
The libvirt file system storage driver determines what file to
act on by concatenating the pool location with the volume name.
If a user is able to pick names like "../../../etc/passwd", then
they can escape the bounds of the pool.  For that matter,
virStoragePoolListVolumes() doesn't descend into subdirectories,
so a user really shouldn't use a name with a slash.

Normally, only privileged users can coerce libvirt into creating
or opening existing files using the virStorageVol APIs; and such
users already have full privilege to create any domain XML (so it
is not an escalation of privilege).  But in the case of
fine-grained ACLs, it is feasible that a user can be granted
storage_vol:create but not domain:write, and it violates
assumptions if such a user can abuse libvirt to access files
outside of the storage pool.

Therefore, prevent all use of volume names that contain "/",
whether or not such a name is actually attempting to escape the
pool.

This changes things from:

$ virsh vol-create-as default ../../../../../../etc/haha --capacity 128
Vol ../../../../../../etc/haha created
$ rm /etc/haha

to:

$ virsh vol-create-as default ../../../../../../etc/haha --capacity 128
error: Failed to create vol ../../../../../../etc/haha
error: Requested operation is not valid: volume name '../../../../../../etc/haha' cannot contain '/'

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 034e47c338)
2015-12-15 20:33:04 -07:00
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build-aux Require spaces around equality comparisons 2014-03-18 11:29:44 +01:00
daemon Use virFileFindResource to locate CPU map XML 2014-04-25 11:59:46 +01:00
docs docs: publish correct enum values 2014-06-26 15:40:52 -06:00
examples Add a new example to illustrate domain migration 2014-04-30 14:29:07 +01:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include Introduce an object for managing firewall rulesets 2014-04-25 15:44:09 +01:00
m4 avoid using deprecated udev logging functions 2015-12-15 20:33:04 -07:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.4 2014-05-04 14:41:29 +08:00
src CVE-2015-5313: storage: don't allow '/' in filesystem volume names 2015-12-15 20:33:04 -07:00
tests maint: cleanup detection of const'ness of selinux ctx 2014-12-23 06:23:39 -07:00
tools wireshark: Honor API change coming with 1.12 release 2014-12-23 06:26:22 -07:00
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bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk enforce sane readdir usage 2014-04-28 17:52:46 -06:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
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         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>