Buffer overflow in libvirt - CVE-2013-4296
Published: October 1, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32593
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4296
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libvirt.org
Affected software:
libvirt
libvirt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform service disruption.
The remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats function in daemon/remote.c in libvirt 0.9.1 through 0.10.1.x, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, 1.0.x before 1.0.5.6, and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted RPC call.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4296
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=e7f400a110e2e3673b96518170bfea0855dd82c0
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00024.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1272.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2764
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1954-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006173