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)
{
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.7",
"binary_name": "libvirt-bin"
},
{
"binary_version": "1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.7",
"binary_name": "libvirt-dev"
},
{
"binary_version": "1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.7",
"binary_name": "libvirt0"
}
],
"availability": "No subscription required"
}
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2404-1.json"
{
"cves": [
{
"severity": [
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "medium"
}
],
"id": "CVE-2014-3657"
},
{
"severity": [
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "medium"
}
],
"id": "CVE-2014-7823"
}
],
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}