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Unscored USN-2404-1 2 CVEs

libvirt vulnerabilities

Published Nov 11, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Pavel Hrdina discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled locking when
processing the virConnectListAllDomains command. An attacker could use this
issue to cause libvirtd to hang, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-3657)

Eric Blake discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled permissions when
processing the qemuDomainFormatXML command. An attacker with read-only
privileges could possibly use this to gain access to certain information
from the domain xml file. (CVE-2014-7823)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.7

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3657
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7823