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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-1008-2 Moderate: Libvirt Disk Format Threat

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has its Libvirt configuration set to 'raw' by default, which poses a significant security risk and necessitates an immediate patch.
Libvirt in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS now no longer probes qemu disks for the image format and defaults to 'raw' when the format is not specified in the XML

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