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Bug 1048631 - (CVE-2013-6458) CVE-2013-6458 qemu: job usage issue in several APIs leading to libvirtd crash
CVE-2013-6458 qemu: job usage issue in several APIs leading to libvirtd crash
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20131213,repor...
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Depends On: 1043069 1048643 1054206 1054207 1054804
Blocks: 1048642 1056484
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Reported: 2014-01-05 19:34 EST by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2016-04-26 10:01 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-21 10:36:03 EST
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0103 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libvirt security and bug fix update 2014-01-28 17:49:13 EST

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-01-05 19:34:42 EST
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 2014-01-07 21:32:11 EST
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 07:57:12 EST
Created libvirt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1054206]
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-28 12:50:19 EST
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 11:36:51 EDT
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/.

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