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Unscored USN-2366-1 3 CVEs

libvirt vulnerabilities

Published Sep 30, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly
handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An
attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a
denial of service on all affected releases, or possibly read arbitrary
files if fine grained access control was enabled on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2014-0179, CVE-2014-5177)

Luyao Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain blkiotune
queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04
LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3633)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.5

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0179
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3633
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5177