CVE-2014-8136

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-12-17
Bugzilla:
1176176: CVE-2014-8136 libvirt: local denial of service in qemu/qemu_driver.c
It was found that QEMU's qemuDomainMigratePerform() and qemuDomainMigrateFinish2() functions did not correctly perform a domain unlock on a failed ACL check. A remote attacker able to establish a connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to lock a domain of a more privileged user, causing a denial of service.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8136 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libvirt) RHSA-2015:0323 2015-03-05

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.0 libvirt Not affected
Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.1 libvirt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libvirt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libvirt Will not fix

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