Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU41243

Resource management error in libvirt - CVE-2014-3657

Published: October 6, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU41243

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-2014-3657

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 virDomainListPopulate function in conf/domain_conf.c in libvirt before 1.2.9 does not clean up the lock on the list of domains, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a NULL value in the second parameter in the virConnectListAllDomains API command.

Affected software

libvirt

How to mitigate CVE-2014-3657

Install update from vendor's website.

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