Description
VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 6 | rhev-hypervisor6 | 6.4-20130815.0.el6_4 | RHSA-2013:1181 |
| RHEL 6 | vdsm +5 | 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev | RHSA-2013:1155 |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Rhev Manager 3 | vdsm +1 | 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev | RHSA-2013:1155 |
Advisories 2
- RHSA-2013:1155 Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev 3.2.2 - vdsm security and bug fix update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 29, 2026
- RHSA-2013:1181 Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 29, 2026