Out-of-Bounds Affecting libvirt package, versions <0.5.1-7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBVIRT-1551023
  • published11 Feb 2009
  • disclosed11 Feb 2009

Introduced: 11 Feb 2009

CVE-2009-0036  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libvirt to version 0.5.1-7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in the proxyReadClientSocket function in proxy/libvirt_proxy.c in libvirt_proxy 0.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges by sending a portion of the header of a virProxyPacket packet, and then sending the remainder of the packet with crafted values in the header, related to use of uninitialized memory in a validation check.

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