Race condition in libvirt - CVE-2014-1447
Published: January 24, 2014 / Updated: July 29, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32584
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1447
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: libvirt.org
Affected software:
libvirt
libvirt
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-1447
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56321
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56446
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029695
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577