Resource Management Errors Affecting libvirt package, versions [,1.0.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.74% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317447
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed29 May 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2013

CVE-2013-1962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libvirt.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function in the storage pool manager in libvirt 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via a large number of requests "to list all volumes for the particular pool."

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