CVE-2013-6436 (GCVE-0-2013-6436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-07 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:39
VLAI
Summary
The lxcDomainGetMemoryParameters method in lxc/lxc_driver.c in libvirt 1.0.5 through 1.2.0 does not properly check the status of LXC guests when reading memory tunables, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash) via a guest in the shutdown status, as demonstrated by the "virsh memtune" command.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://osvdb.org/101485 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/60895 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/56245 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2013-12-20 00:00
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