Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-18 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libvirt, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service. Versions less than 1.0.5.1-r3 are affected.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1708-1 - Wenlong Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain RPC calls. A remote attacker could exploit this and cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Tingting Zheng discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled cleanup under certain error conditions. A remote attacker could exploit this and cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0199-01 - The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems. A flaw was found in the way libvirtd handled connection cleanup under certain error conditions. A remote attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to crash libvirtd or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the root user.
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