CVE-2013-0170

Publication date 28 January 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libvirt	12.10 quantal	Fixed 0.9.13-0ubuntu12.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.7
	11.10 oneiric	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

code is different in oneiric and earlier, doesn't look affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libvirt	Upstream: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=46532e3e8ed5f5a736a02f67d6c805492f9ca720

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)