CVE-2014-3657
A denial of service flaw was found in the way libvirt's virConnectListAllDomains() function computed the number of used domains. A remote attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to make any domain operations within libvirt unresponsive.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3657 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
This issue does not affect the versions of libvirt packages as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue does affect the versions of libvirt packages as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Future updates may address this issue in the
respective Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (libvirt) | RHSA-2014:1873 | 2014-11-18 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libvirt) | RHSA-2014:1352 | 2014-10-01 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.1 | libvirt | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libvirt | Not affected |