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Ubuntu: USN-2867-1 (CVE-2014-8136): libvirt vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2867-1 (CVE-2014-8136): libvirt vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/19/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2016
Modified
09/19/2017

Description

The (1) qemuDomainMigratePerform and (2) qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt do not unlock the domain when an ACL check fails, which allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvirt0

References

  • USN-2867-1
  • RHSA-2015:0323
  • MDVSA-2015:023
  • MDVSA-2015:070
  • CVE-2014-8136

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