Bug 1006505 (CVE-2013-4297)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4297 libvirt: invalid free in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acathrow, berrange, bsarathy, clalancette, dallan, eblake, itamar, jdenemar, jforbes, jkurik, jyang, laine, libvirt-maint, pfrields, veillard, virt-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1006511, 1006513
Bug Blocks:	1006495

Description Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 17:58:20 UTC

A potential invalid free (uninialized variable) flaw was found in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate function in libvirt.

A remote user able to issue commands to libvirt daemon could use this flaw to crash libvirtd.

Introduced by:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=8aabd597b379db5ae1655e36dff4f10d5622830a

Upstream fix:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=2dba0323ff0cec31bdcea9dd3b2428af297401f2

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 18:00:09 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of libvirt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 18:16:17 UTC

Created libvirt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1006511]

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-10-12 04:34:00 UTC

libvirt-1.1.3-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.