Vulnerability CVE-2013-0170
Published: 2013-02-08

Description:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
SUSE -> Suse linux enterprise software development kit 
Redhat -> Libvirt 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Suse linux 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=46532e3e8ed5f5a736a02f67d6c805492f9ca720
http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098326.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098370.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098398.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0199.html
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57578
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028047
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1708-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893450
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81552
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