CVE-2011-1146

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66012

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683650

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678406

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0805

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0794

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0700

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0694

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1094-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025262

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46820

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0391.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2194

http://secunia.com/advisories/44069

http://secunia.com/advisories/43917

http://secunia.com/advisories/43897

http://secunia.com/advisories/43780

http://secunia.com/advisories/43670

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/09/3

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00022.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056209.html

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=71753cb7f7a16ff800381c0b5ee4e99eea92fed3

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617773

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3