Red Hat libvirt up to 0.0.4 Error Reporting resource management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat libvirt up to 0.0.4 (Virtualization Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Error Reporting. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented 05/31/2011 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-1486. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack can only be done within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 75624 (openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (openSUSE-SU-2011:0317-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119224 (Red Hat Update for libvirt (RHSA-2011:0479)).

Upgrading to version 0.0.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (66605), Tenable (75624), SecurityFocus (BID 47148†), SecurityTracker (ID 1025477†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31203†).

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 75624
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (openSUSE-SU-2011:0317-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 69989
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2280-1 (libvirt)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: libvirt 0.0.5
Patch: f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670

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Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: USN-1152-1
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-1486 (🔍)
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X-Force: 66605
SecurityFocus: 47148 - libvirt Threads Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 44459
SecurityTracker: 1025477
Vulnerability Center: 31203 - libvirt 0.5.1-0.8.2 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability, Medium

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Created: 03/23/2015 04:50 PM
Updated: 01/13/2025 03:15 PM
Changes: 03/23/2015 04:50 PM (61), 03/21/2017 04:42 PM (9), 11/08/2021 01:15 AM (8), 11/08/2021 01:23 AM (1), 11/08/2021 01:30 AM (1), 08/04/2024 04:04 AM (16), 01/13/2025 03:15 PM (12)
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