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libvirt: denial of service with keepalive

Published Jan 24, 2014

Description

Race condition in the virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive function in libvirt before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by closing a connection before a keepalive response is sent.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libvirt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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Weaknesses (1)

References (16)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 24, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 14, 2014
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 31, 2013