CVE-2014-8131 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.0 Published 6 Jan 2015 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service in libvirt by triggering a deadlock or crash via restricted domain stats requests.

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-2014-8131?

CVE-2014-8131 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Libvirt, published on 6 Jan 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8131?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Libvirt.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8131?

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-2014-8131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8131 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Libvirt vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8131, GHSA-7rwv-h43r-x9q6.