CVE-2014-8131

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-12-05
Bugzilla:
1172569: CVE-2014-8131 libvirt: deadlock and segfault in qemuConnectGetAllDomainStats

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8131 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the versions of libvirt packages as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 1.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.1 libvirt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 7.0 libvirt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libvirt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libvirt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libvirt Not affected

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