USN-2093-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

Martin Kletzander discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled reading memory tunables from LXC guests. A local user could possibly use this flaw to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. CVE-2013-6436 Dario Faggioli discovered that libvir...

CVE-2013-6436

The lxcDomainGetMemoryParameters method in lxc/lxcdriver.c in libvirt 1.0.5 through 1.2.0 does not properly check the status of LXC guests when reading memory tunables, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash via a guest in the shutdown...