USN-2366-1

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    USN-2366-1

    Published: 30 Sept 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: libvirt vulnerabilities

    Details: Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a denial of service on all affected releases, or possibly read arbitrary files if fine grained access control was enabled on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0179, CVE-2014-5177) Luyao Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain blkiotune queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3633)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2366-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0179, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3633, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5177

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libvirt

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.5

    Affected versions

    1.1.1-0ubuntu8
    1.1.1-0ubuntu9
    1.1.4-0ubuntu2
    1.1.4-0ubuntu3
    1.1.4-0ubuntu4
    1.1.4-0ubuntu5

    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