CVE-2013-4292 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service in libvirt by sending excessive domain migration parameters via RPC calls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-4292?
CVE-2013-4292 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Libvirt, published on 30 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
libvirt 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of domain migrate parameters in certain RPC calls in (1) daemon/remote.c and (2) remote/remote_driver.c.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4292?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Libvirt.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4292?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-4292 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4292 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Libvirt
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4292, GHSA-xw9c-qm7m-c9wc.