Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-1152-1)

It was discovered that libvirt did not use thread-safe error reporting. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. CVE-2011-1486 Eric Blake discovered that libvirt had an off-by-one error which could be used to reopen disk probing and bypass the fix f...

CVE-2011-1486

libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash by causing multiple threads to report errors at the same time...