CVE-2020-14339

A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for /dev/mapper/control into the QEMU process. This file descriptor allows for privileged operations to happen against the device-mapper on the host. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to perform operations outside of their standard permissions, potentially causing serious damage to the host operating system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Mitigation

This issue is mitigated on Red Hat Enterprise Linux if SELinux is in enforcing mode, which prevents the /dev/mapper/control file descriptor from being accessible by a guest user/process.