CVE-2012-2690

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libguestfs versions prior to 1.18.0

Description The issue allows local guest users to potentially obtain sensitive information due to the failure of virt-edit to preserve the original file permissions when editing, resulting in the new file being saved with world-readable permissions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.18.0, update to version 1.18.0 or later to resolve the issue.