996166 – (CVE-2013-4236) CVE-2013-4236 vdsm: incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167 issue

Bug 996166 (CVE-2013-4236) - CVE-2013-4236 vdsm: incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167 issue

Summary: CVE-2013-4236 vdsm: incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167 issue

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2013-4236
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On:	983402 984940
Blocks:	996167 996212
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2013-08-12 14:39 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified:	2023-05-11 23:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	15 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-08-24 13:40:14 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1155	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: rhev 3.2.2 - vdsm security and bug fix update	2013-08-21 21:07:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1181	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update	2013-08-27 22:53:35 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2013-08-12 14:39:44 UTC

It was found that fix for CVE-2013-0167 was not complete. A privileged
guest user could still potentially make the host the guest is running on
unavailable to the management server by making guest agent return data
with invalid XML characters.

Upstream fix:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=commit;h=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6

Acknowledgements:

This issue was found by David Gibson of Red Hat.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-13 16:18:44 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV Manager version 3.2

Via RHSA-2013:1155 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-27 18:54:35 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-6

Via RHSA-2013:1181 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1181.html

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