Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions [,1.2.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317409
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-8131  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 1.2.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The qemu implementation of virConnectGetAllDomainStats in libvirt before 1.2.11 does not properly handle locks when a domain is skipped due to ACL restrictions, which allows a remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (deadlock or segmentation fault and crash) via a request to access the users does not have privileges to access.

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