Executive Summary

Summary
Title libvirt: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-36 First vendor Publication 2014-12-24
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-24
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

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

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libvirt, worst of which allows context-dependent attackers to cause Denial of Service.

Background

libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libvirt users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=app-emulation/libvirt-1.2.10-r3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-8131 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8131
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-8135 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8135
[ 3 ] CVE-2014-8136 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8136

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-36.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-36.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 228
Os 4
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-01-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2867-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-070.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150305_libvirt_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-18 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-0323.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-13 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0323.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-05 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-0323.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-1883.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-1892.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-16 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-023.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-36.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-01-06 21:52:41
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-27 13:25:15
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-25 00:22:08
  • First insertion