CVE-2014-3633 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can trigger an out-of-bounds read in libvirt to crash the service or leak sensitive heap memory via crafted queries.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2014-3633?

CVE-2014-3633 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Oct 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune function in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt before 1.2.9, when a disk has been hot-plugged or removed from the live image, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive heap information via a crafted blkiotune query, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3633?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Libvirt Libvirt.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3633?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-3633 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3633 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3633, GHSA-gq49-7wvq-p22q, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3633.

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