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Unscored USN-2867-1 4 CVEs

libvirt vulnerabilities

Published Jan 12, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled the firewall rules on
bridge networks when the daemon was restarted. This could result in an
unintended firewall configuration. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04
LTS. (CVE-2011-4600)

Peter Krempa discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled locking when
certain ACL checks failed. A local attacker could use this issue to cause
libvirt to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue
only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8136)

Luyao Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled VNC passwords in
shapshot and image files. A remote authenticated user could use this issue
to possibly obtain VNC passwords. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04
LTS. (CVE-2015-0236)

Han Han discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled volume creation
failure when used with NFS. A remote authenticated user could use this
issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-5247)

Ossi Herrala and Joonas Kuorilehto discovered that libvirt incorrectly
performed storage pool name validation. A remote authenticated user could
use this issue to bypass ACLs and gain access to unintended files. This
issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10.
(CVE-2015-5313)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.16

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Unscored —

    The networkReloadIptablesRules function in network/bridge_driver.c in libvirt before 0.9.9 does not properly handle fir…

  • Unscored —

    The (1) qemuDomainMigratePerform and (2) qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt do not unl…

  • Unscored —

    libvirt before 1.2.12 allow remote authenticated users to obtain the VNC password by using the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE fl…

  • Unscored —

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-4600
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8136
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0236
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5247
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5313