Bug 484014 (CVE-2013-4297)

Summary:	<app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r1: uninitialized pointer DoS (CVE-2013-4297)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=tag;h=f214d6a5bf6b1e733e8aff3f38a85be160f283e8
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-06 15:48:22 UTC

*reserved*

Unfortunately the issue has been made public by the publishing of the patch. Which is now committed upstream and tagged as the fix for CVE-2013-4297, but the CVE hasn't actually been published yet. Since the fix is out there might as well get it in Gentoo and stabilized.

target keywords: amd64 x86

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-09-07 19:08:23 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-09-07 19:08:35 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 3 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-09 02:22:10 UTC

Waiting for CVE to be published to decide whether to GLSA.

Comment 4 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-19 15:49:25 UTC

[1] indicates that this is a DoS (invalid free) vuln.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006505

Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-10-02 04:07:11 UTC

CVE-2013-4297 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4297):
  The virFileNBDDeviceAssociate function in util/virfile.c in libvirt 1.1.2
  and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service
  (uninitialized pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Comment 6 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-10-02 09:19:35 UTC

Added to existing GLSA draft

Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-12-08 23:47:38 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201412-04 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F).