CVE-2014-3657

Summary

CVECVE-2014-3657
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-10-06 14:55:10 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe virDomainListPopulate function in conf/domain_conf.c in libvirt before 1.2.9 does not clean up the lock on the list of domains, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a NULL value in the second parameter in the virConnectListAllDomains API command.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.0 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.1 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.2 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.3 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.4 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.5 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.6 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt 1.2.7 All All All
Application Libvirt Libvirt All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
openSUSE-SU-2014:1293-1: moderate: update for libvirt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2014:1290-1: moderate: update for libvirt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Security Advisory SA62303 - Ubuntu update for libvirt - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-2404-1: libvirt vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
libvirt.org Git - libvirt.git/commitdiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libvirt.org
Libvirt Security Notice: LSN-2014-0005 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.libvirt.org Vendor Advisory
libvirt.org Git - libvirt.git/commitdiff MITRE libvirt.org
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE-2014-3657 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
Bug 1145667 – CVE-2014-3657 libvirt: domain_conf: domain deadlock DoS MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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