Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Red Hat libvirt 0.8.8

CVE-2011-1146 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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