[PATCH for 6.6.0] news: Document recent CVE fix

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 07:54:50 UTC 2020


Document the fix of leaking /dev/mapper/control to QEMU (fixed in
v6.6.0-rc1-3-g2249455654).

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index ff977968c7..8b53d21b8a 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ v6.6.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **Bug fixes**
 
+  * virdevmapper: Don't use libdevmapper to obtain dependencies
+
+    When building domain's private ``/dev`` in a namespace, libdevmapper was
+    consulted for getting full dependency tree of domain's disks. However, this
+    meant that libdevmapper opened ``/dev/mapper/control`` which wasn't closed
+    and was leaked to QEMU. CVE-2020-14339
+
 
 v6.5.0 (2020-07-03)
 ===================
-- 
2.26.2




More information about the libvir-list mailing list