SB2014020406 - Race condition in libvirt (Alpine package)
Published: February 4, 2014
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014020406
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1447)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Race condition in the virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive function in libvirt before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by closing a connection before a keepalive response is sent.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.