libvirt API calls denial of service
| libvirt-apicalls-dos (66012) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
libvirt could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, caused by a failure to honor read only connections by the virNodeDeviceDettach, virNodeDeviceReset, virNodeDeviceReAttach, virDomainRevertToSnapshot, virNodeDeviceReAttach, and virDomainSnapshotDelete API calls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 5.8 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Apply the appropriate patch for your system. See References.
References:
- libvirt Web site: libvirt: The virtualization API.
- Red Hat Bugzilla ¿ Bug 683650 : libvirt: several API calls do not honour read-only connection.
- BID-46820: libvirt Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2011-1146: libvirt.c in the API in Red Hat libvirt 0.8.8 does not properly restrict operations in a read-only connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) virNodeDeviceDettach, (2) virNodeDeviceReset, (3) virDomainRevertToSnapshot, (4) virDomainSnapshotDelete, (5) virNodeDeviceReAttach, or (6) virConnectDomainXMLToNative call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5086.
- DSA-2194: libvirt -- insufficient checks
- RHSA-2011-0391: Important: libvirt security update
- SA43670: libvirt Read-Only API Calls Security Bypass Security Issue
- SUSE-SR:2011:007: SUSE Security Summary Report
Platforms Affected:
- libvirt libvirt 0.6.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 Server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 Workstation
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server EUS 6.0.z
- RedHat RHEL Desktop Multi OS 5 Client
- RedHat RHEL Virtualization 5 Server
Reported:
Mar 09, 2011
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