Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 resource management
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 (Operating System). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:
The QXL display driver in QXL Virtual GPU 0.1.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (guest crash or hang) via a SPICE connection that prevents other threads from obtaining the qemu_mutex mutex. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
The weakness was disclosed 02/12/2013 by Petr Matousek (Website). The advisory is shared for download at wiki.mageia.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2013-0241 since 12/06/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 68722 (Oracle Linux 6 : xorg-x11-drv-qxl (ELSA-2013-0218)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (81704) and Tenable (68722).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 68722
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 6 : xorg-x11-drv-qxl (ELSA-2013-0218)
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OpenVAS ID: 881590
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for xorg-x11-drv-qxl CESA-2013:0218 centos6
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Timeline
12/06/2012 🔍01/30/2013 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: RHSA-2013:0218
Researcher: Petr Matousek
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2013-0241 (🔍)
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X-Force: 81704
Vulnerability Center: 38449 - Multiple Linux Products QXL Virtual GPU Local DoS Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 57637 - QEMU KVM QXL Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 52021 - QXL Virtual GPU SPICE Connection Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability, Less Critical
Entry
Created: 03/24/2015 12:22Updated: 12/29/2021 09:20
Changes: 03/24/2015 12:22 (66), 04/24/2017 15:03 (8), 12/29/2021 09:16 (3), 12/29/2021 09:19 (1), 12/29/2021 09:20 (2)
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