National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-0241
Original release date:02/13/2013
Last revised:02/13/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Description
Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0218.html
Affected Products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1714-1/
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Ubuntu 11.10
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906032
External Source: XF
Name: qxl-virtual-spice-dos(81704)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1714-1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20130130 Re: CVE request -- qxl: synchronous io guest DoS
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20130130 CVE request -- qxl: synchronous io guest DoS
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 52021
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2013:0218
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)