Resource Management Errors Affecting libvirt package, versions [,0.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.34% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317430
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed31 May 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 May 2011

CVE-2011-1486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 0.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing multiple threads to report errors at the same time.

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