Summary: | <app-emulation/libvirt-{1.1.3.4,1.2.3}: vulnerability in virInitctlSetRunLevel (CVE-2013-6456) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | cardoe, virtualization |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045643 | ||
Whiteboard: | B4 [glsa] | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | 508268 | ||
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Description
Agostino Sarubbo
2014-02-23 11:43:04 UTC
This was fixed for the 1.2.2 release and the 1.1.3.4 release. The following need to go stable to fix this: - 1.1.3.4 - 1.2.3 amd64 stable x86 stable. Maintainer(s), please cleanup. Security, please vote. Arches, Thank you for your work Maintainer(s), please drop the vulnerable version. Maintainer(s), Thank you for cleanup! CVE-2013-6456 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6456): The LXC driver (lxc/lxc_driver.c) in libvirt 1.0.1 through 1.2.1 allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary host devices via the virDomainDeviceDettach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; (2) create arbitrary nodes (mknod) via the virDomainDeviceAttach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; and cause a denial of service (shutdown or reboot host OS) via the (3) virDomainShutdown or (4) virDomainReboot API and a symlink attack on /dev/initctl in the container, related to "paths under /proc/$PID/root" and the virInitctlSetRunLevel function. 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). |