National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0036

Overview

Buffer overflow in the proxyReadClientSocket function in proxy/libvirt_proxy.c in libvirt_proxy 0.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges by sending a portion of the header of a virProxyPacket packet, and then sending the remainder of the packet with crafted values in the header, related to use of uninitialized memory in a validation check.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvir-list] 20090128 Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] proxy: Fix use of uninitalized memory

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-January/msg00728.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvir-list] 20090128 Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] proxy: Fix use of uninitalized memory

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-January/msg00726.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvir-list] 20090127 [libvirt] [PATCH] proxy: Fix use of uninitalized memory

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-January/msg00699.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484947

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484947

External Source: BID

Name: 33724

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33724

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0382

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0382.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34397

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34397

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10127

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10127

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090210 libvirt_proxy heads up

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/10/8

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=2bb0657e28

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=2bb0657e28

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10127

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10127