Bug 1015214 (CVE-2013-4399) - CVE-2013-4399 libvirt: unprivileged user can crash libvirtd when ACLs are enabled
Summary: CVE-2013-4399 libvirt: unprivileged user can crash libvirtd when ACLs are ena...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-4399
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1011429
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Reported: 2013-10-03 16:41 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt 1.1.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-10-03 16:47:31 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-10-03 16:41:54 UTC
It was discovered that an unprivileged user with read-only access to a libvirt guest could connect to it and, by disconnecting, cause a crash of the guest if the access-driver ACLs were defined in libvirtd.conf.  This was due libvirtd not removing event callbacks, which would continue to trigger after the client disconnects, which would cause predictable use of free memory, resulting in a crash.

This vulnerability was introduced in libvirt 1.1.0 and fixed in 1.1.3 [1].

[1] http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=8294aa0c1750dcb49d6345cd9bd97bf421580d8b


Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Zhenfang Wang of Red Hat.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-10-03 16:47:09 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

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


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