SB2014100602 - Resource management error in libvirt
Published: October 6, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014100602
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3657)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The virDomainListPopulate function in conf/domain_conf.c in libvirt before 1.2.9 does not clean up the lock on the list of domains, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a NULL value in the second parameter in the virConnectListAllDomains API command.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc22b2e74890873848b43fffae43025d22053669
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00017.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1352.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60291
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62303
- http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0005.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2404-1