Bug 1006505 (CVE-2013-4297) - CVE-2013-4297 libvirt: invalid free in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate
Summary: CVE-2013-4297 libvirt: invalid free in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-4297
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1006511 1006513
Blocks: 1006495
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Reported: 2013-09-10 17:58 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-10 18:00:09 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 17:58:20 UTC 
A potential invalid free (uninialized variable) flaw was found in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate function in libvirt.

A remote user able to issue commands to libvirt daemon could use this flaw to crash libvirtd.

Introduced by:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=8aabd597b379db5ae1655e36dff4f10d5622830a

Upstream fix:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=2dba0323ff0cec31bdcea9dd3b2428af297401f2
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 18:00:09 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of libvirt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-09-10 18:16:17 UTC 
Created libvirt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1006511]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-10-12 04:34:00 UTC 
libvirt-1.1.3-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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