Resource management error in libvirt - CVE-2013-1962

 

Resource management error in libvirt - CVE-2013-1962

Published: May 29, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32678
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1962
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function in the storage pool manager in libvirt 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via a large number of requests "to list all volumes for the particular pool."


Affected software

libvirt
libvirt (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1962

Install update from vendor's website.

libvirt (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.5-r1

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