Bug 717199 (CVE-2011-2511) - CVE-2011-2511 libvirt: integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus
Summary: CVE-2011-2511 libvirt: integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-2511
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 717202 717203 717204 717206 717207
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-28 11:15 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:45 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-10-04 20:14:28 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1019 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2011-07-21 10:31:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1197 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libvirt security and bug fix update 2011-08-23 14:40:22 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2011-06-28 11:15:54 UTC 
It has been found that calling VirDomainGetVcpus with bogus parameters can lead to integer overflow and subsequent heap corruption. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash libvirtd (DoS).

Upstream patch:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-June/msg01278.html
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2011-06-28 11:27:21 UTC 
Created libvirt tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 717204]
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 10:31:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:1019 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1019.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 12:30:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:1019 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1019.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-23 14:40:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1197 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1197.html
Comment 8 Eric Blake 2012-10-04 16:48:19 UTC 
Any reason this bug is still marked NEW when all dependent bugs have been closed?
Comment 9 Petr Matousek 2012-10-04 20:14:28 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Any reason this bug is still marked NEW when all dependent bugs have been
> closed?

No reason, we can close this bug now. Thanks Eric.
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