Bug 1048629 (CVE-2013-6457) - CVE-2013-6457 libvirt: avoid crashing if calling 'virsh numatune' on an inactive domain (libxl)
Summary: CVE-2013-6457 libvirt: avoid crashing if calling 'virsh numatune' on an inact...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2013-6457
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2014-01-05 23:54 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-21 15:35:50 UTC

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-01-05 23:54:53 UTC 
An invalid free flaw in the libxl driver in libvirt resulted in libvirt crashing if "virsh numatune" was run on an inactive domain. It may be possible, but unlikely, for an attacker to leverage this flaw for arbitrary code execution.

This issue affects the version of libvirt in Fedora 20. It does not affect the versions of libvirt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as those versions do not use libxl.
Comment 2 Eric Blake 2014-01-07 12:55:21 UTC 
Embargo is not required; this bug is already public:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-December/msg01258.html
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