CVE-2014-1447

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    CVE-2014-1447

    Published: 24 Jan 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/56321, http://secunia.com/advisories/56446, http://secunia.com/advisories/60895, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577, http://libvirt.org/news.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029695

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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