Bug 1048631 (CVE-2013-6458)

Summary:	CVE-2013-6458 qemu: job usage issue in several APIs leading to libvirtd crash
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aavati, amit.shah, aortega, apevec, areis, ayoung, berrange, bsarathy, carnil, cfergeau, chrisw, clalancette, drjones, dwmw2, dyuan, eblake, ehabkost, fweimer, gkotton, gleb, honzhang, iheim, imammedo, itamar, jforbes, jkurik, knoel, kraxel, laine, lhh, libvirt-maint, lkundrak, markmc, m.a.young, mkenneth, mrezanin, mtosatti, mzhan, pbonzini, pfrields, pmatouse, rbalakri, rbryant, rhos-maint, rhs-bugs, rjones, rkrcmar, rwheeler, sclewis, scottt.tw, shyu, ssaha, vbellur, veillard, virt-maint, xen-maint, ydu, yeylon
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1043069, 1048643, 1054206, 1054207, 1054804
Bug Blocks:	1048642, 1056484

Description Murray McAllister 2014-01-06 00:34:42 UTC

A job usage issue in several APIs could allow an attacker who is able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd to crash libvirtd.

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-01-08 02:32:11 UTC

Upstream fix:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=db86da5ca2109e4006c286a09b6c75bfe10676ad

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043069#c15 notes "I found similar patterns in several other APIs and fixed them by the following commits: v1.2.0-233-gb799259, v1.2.0-234-gf93d2ca, v1.2.0-235-gff5f30b, v1.2.0-236-g3b56425."

Comment 7 Petr Matousek 2014-01-16 12:57:12 UTC

Created libvirt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1054206]

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-28 17:50:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0103 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html

Comment 10 Petr Matousek 2014-04-29 15:36:51 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.