Executive Summary



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Summary
Title libvirt security update
Informations
Name DSA-2280 First vendor Publication 2011-07-19
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2011-07-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different virtualization systems, is prone to an integer overflow (CVE-2011-2511). Additionally, the stable version is prone to a denial of service, because its error reporting is not thread-safe (CVE-2011-1486).

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.6-10+lenny2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2-7). We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2280

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13022
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13022
Title: DSA-2280-1 libvirt -- several
Description: It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different virtualization systems, is prone to an integer overflow. Additionally, the stable version is prone to a denial of service, because its error reporting is not thread-safe. For the stable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2280-1
CVE-2011-2511
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13963
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13963
Title: USN-1180-1 -- libvirt vulnerability
Description: libvirt: Libvirt virtualization toolkit An authenticated attacker could send crafted input to libvirt and cause it to crash.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1180-1
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21890
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21890
Title: RHSA-2011:1019: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
Description: Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1019-01
CESA-2011:1019
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21894
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21894
Title: RHSA-2011:1197: libvirt security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1197-01
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21916
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21916
Title: RHSA-2011:0478: libvirt security update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:0478-01
CESA-2011:0478
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21945
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21945
Title: RHSA-2011:0479: libvirt security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:0479-01
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22520
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22520
Title: ELSA-2011:0478: libvirt security update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:0478-01
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23402
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23402
Title: ELSA-2011:1019: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
Description: Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:1019-01
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23542
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23542
Title: ELSA-2011:0479: libvirt security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:0479-01
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23675
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23675
Title: ELSA-2011:1197: libvirt security and bug fix update (Moderate)
Description: Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:1197-01
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27967
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27967
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2011-0479 -- libvirt security and bug fix update (moderate)
Description: [0.8.1-27.0.1.el6_0.6] - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image [0.8.1-27.el6_0.6] - Properly initialize supplementary groups for qemu process (rhbz#668692) - Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe (CVE-2011-1486)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-0479
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27997
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27997
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2011-0478 -- libvirt security update (moderate)
Description: [0.8.2-15.0.1.el5_6.4] - Replaced docs/et.png in tarball [0.8.2-15.el5_6.4] - Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe (CVE-2011-1486)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-0478
CVE-2011-1486
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28011
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28011
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2011-1197 -- libvirt security and bug fix update (moderate)
Description: [0.8.7-18.0.1.el6_1.1 ] - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image [libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1] - debug: Avoid null dereference on uuid lookup api (rhbz#728546) - Fix auditing of disk hotunplug operations (rhbz#728516) - storage: Fix regression with backing format (rhbz#726617) - Fix performance problem of virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom() (rhbz#715400) - qemu: Translate boot config into bootindex if possible (rhbz#715401) - remote: Protect against integer overflow (rhbz#717202) Resolves: rhbz#728546, rhbz#728516, rhbz#715400, rhbz#715401, rhbz#717202 Resolves: rhbz#726617
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-1197
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28040
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28040
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2011-1019 -- libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (moderate)
Description: [0.8.2-22.0.1.el5] - Replaced docs/et.png in tarball [libvirt-0.8.2-22.el5] - Fix auditing of disk hotunplug operations (rhbz#710151) [libvirt-0.8.2-21.el5] - remote: Protect against integer overflow (rhbz#717207) [0.8.2-20.el5] - Support enabling or disabling the HPET for Xen domains (rhbz#703193) - SMBIOS support (rhbz#661365) [0.8.2-19.el5] - xen: Plug memory leak in multiple serial ports support (rhbz#670789) - Manually kill gzip if restore fails before starting qemu (rhbz#681623) - qemu: Avoid double close on domain restore (rhbz#681623) - virterror: Avoid API breakage with vmware (rhbz#665075) - nwfilter: Resolve deadlock between VM ops and filter update (rhbz#697749) [0.8.2-18.el5] - xen: Prevent updating device when attaching a device (rhbz#662908) - Add PCI sysfs reset access (rhbz#689880) - xencapstest: Don't fail when Xen is installed (rhbz#690459) - Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe (rhbz#690733) [0.8.2-17.el5] - Fix event-handling data race (rhbz#671569) - Add support for multiple serial ports into the Xen driver (rhbz#670789) - Add missing checks for read only connections (CVE-2011-1146) - Guess rhel macro based on dist macro (rhbz#665325) [0.8.2-16.el5] - Fix possible crash in virExec (rhbz#665549)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-1019
CVE-2011-2511
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): libvirt
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 71

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for libvirt CESA-2011:0478 centos5 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_0478_libvirt_centos5_x86_64.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for libvirt CESA-2011:1019 centos5 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1019_libvirt_centos5_x86_64.nasl
2012-07-09 Name : RedHat Update for libvirt RHSA-2011:1197-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1197-01_libvirt.nasl
2012-06-06 Name : RedHat Update for libvirt RHSA-2011:0479-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_0479-01_libvirt.nasl
2012-03-12 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201202-07 (libvirt)
File : nvt/glsa_201202_07.nasl
2011-09-23 Name : CentOS Update for libvirt CESA-2011:1019 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1019_libvirt_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for libvirt CESA-2011:0478 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_0478_libvirt_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-08-03 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2280-1 (libvirt)
File : nvt/deb_2280_1.nasl
2011-08-02 Name : Ubuntu Update for libvirt USN-1180-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1180_1.nasl
2011-07-27 Name : Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2011-9062
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_9062_libvirt_fc14.nasl
2011-07-18 Name : Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2011-9091
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_9091_libvirt_fc15.nasl
2011-06-20 Name : Ubuntu Update for libvirt USN-1152-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1152_1.nasl
2011-04-21 Name : Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2011-4870
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4870_libvirt_fc13.nasl
2011-04-19 Name : Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2011-4896
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_4896_libvirt_fc14.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
73668 libvirt src/libvirt.c virDomainGetVcpus() Function Request Parsing Remote Ove...

72643 libvirt libvirtd Multiple Thread Error Reporting Remote DoS

libvirtd in libvirt contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when multiple threads report errors simultaneously, and will result in loss of availability for the service.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1090.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_xen-201105-110510.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_libvirt-110706.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_libvirt-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_xen-201105-110510.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_libvirt-110706.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_libvirt-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0479.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1197.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1019.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110502_libvirt_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110823_libvirt_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110721_libvirt_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201202-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_libvirt-7616.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-23 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2011-1019.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1197.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-08-15 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_libvirt-7613.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-29 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1180-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-27 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_libvirt-110712.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-9062.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2280.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-07-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-9091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-06-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1152-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-06-01 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_xen-201105-110505.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_libvirt-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2011-0478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-03 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0479.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4870.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4964.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-4896.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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