Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libvirt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-LIBVIRT-633953
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed7 Jan 2014

Introduced: 7 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-6436  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The lxcDomainGetMemoryParameters method in lxc/lxc_driver.c in libvirt 1.0.5 through 1.2.0 does not properly check the status of LXC guests when reading memory tunables, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash) via a guest in the shutdown status, as demonstrated by the "virsh memtune" command.