CVE-2011-1146 Information

Description

libvirt.c in the API in Red Hat libvirt 0.8.8 does not properly restrict operations in a read-only connection which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) virNodeDeviceDettach (2) virNodeDeviceReset (3) virDomainRevertToSnapshot (4) virDomainSnapshotDelete (5) virNodeDeviceReAttach or (6) virConnectDomainXMLToNative call a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5086.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617773 http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=71753cb7f7a16ff800381c0b5ee4e99eea92fed3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056209.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00022.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/09/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/5 http://secunia.com/advisories/43670 http://secunia.com/advisories/43780 http://secunia.com/advisories/43897 http://secunia.com/advisories/43917 http://secunia.com/advisories/44069 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2194 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0391.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46820 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025262 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1094-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0694 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0700 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0794 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0805 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678406 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683650 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66012