3.3 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
libvirt.so is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The library contains a race condition when handling the keepalive initialization requests, allowing a malicious user to cause the library to crash by closing the connection before the keepalive request is sent.
libvirt.org/news.html
libvirt.org/news.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html
secunia.com/advisories/56321
secunia.com/advisories/56321
secunia.com/advisories/56446
secunia.com/advisories/56446
secunia.com/advisories/60895
secunia.com/advisories/60895
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846
www.securitytracker.com/id/1029695
www.securitytracker.com/id/1029695
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052957
github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/066c8ef6c18bc1faf8b3e10787b39796a7a06cc0
github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/173c2914734eb5c32df6d35a82bf503e12261bcf