National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1486

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvirt] 20110323 [PATCH] Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg01087.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693391

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693391

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1152-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1

External Source: BID

Name: 47148

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47148

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0479

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0479.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0478

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0478.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2280

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2280

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134583

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134583

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025477

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025477

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44459

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44459