National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2693

Overview

libvirt, possibly before 0.9.12, does not properly assign USB devices to virtual machines when multiple devices have the same vendor and product ID, which might cause the wrong device to be associated with a guest and might allow local users to access unintended USB devices.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

External Source: MLIST

Name: [libvirt] 20120428 [PATCH 0/3] usb devices with same vendor, productID hotplug support

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg01494.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120611 Re: CVE request -- libvirt: address bus= device= when identicle vendor ID/product IDs usb devices attached are ignored

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/11/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120611 CVE request -- libvirt: address bus= device= when identicle vendor ID/product IDs usb devices attached are ignored

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/11/2

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0127

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0127.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0748

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0748.html