CVE-2014-1447

Publication date 24 January 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvirt 13.10 saucy
Fixed 1.1.1-0ubuntu8.5
13.04 raring Ignored end of life
12.10 quantal
Fixed 0.9.13-0ubuntu12.6
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.17
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

per upstream, introduced in 0.9.8

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libvirt