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CVE-2014-3657 (GCVE-0-2014-3657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-06 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:50
VLAI
Summary
The 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/62303 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2404-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1352.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitd… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0005.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/60291 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2014-10-01 00:00
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