SB2018030114 - Denial of service in libvirt



SB2018030114 - Denial of service in libvirt

Published: March 1, 2018 Updated: April 2, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018030114
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1064)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the qemu_agent.c source code file due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-5748 that affects the QEMU monitor. A local attacker can consume excessive amounts of memory resources and cause the service to crash.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.