Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU Implementation of virConnectGetAllDomainStats

CVE-2014-8131 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

The qemu implementation of virConnectGetAllDomainStats in libvirt before 1.2.11 does not properly handle locks when a domain is skipped due to ACL restrictions, which allows a remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (deadlock or segmentation fault and crash) via a request to access the users does not have privileges to access.

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