CVE-2013-2124

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-05-28
Bugzilla:
968306: CVE-2013-2124 libguestfs: DoS (abort) due to a double free flaw when inspecting certain guest files / images

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Double free vulnerability in inspect-fs.c in LibguestFS 1.20.x before 1.20.7, 1.21.x, 1.22.0, and 1.23.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via empty guest files.

Find out more about CVE-2013-2124 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of libguestfs as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as it did not include the upstream commit 5a3da366268825b26b470cde35658b67c1d11cd4 that introduced this issue.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libguestfs Will not fix

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