Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libvirt  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1304-LIBVIRT-635482
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed2 Nov 2013

Introduced: 2 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4401  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:13.04.

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 virConnectDomainXMLToNative API function in libvirt 1.1.0 through 1.1.3 checks for the connect:read permission instead of the connect:write permission, which allows attackers to gain domain:write privileges and execute Qemu binaries via crafted XML. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.