CVE-2014-8136 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in libvirt by triggering a deadlock during failed ACL checks in migration functions.
- 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-2014-8136?
CVE-2014-8136 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Dec 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The (1) qemuDomainMigratePerform and (2) qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt do not unlock the domain when an ACL check fails, which allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8136?
It affects 8 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mageia Mageia, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 2 more.
How do I fix CVE-2014-8136?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2014-8136 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8136 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8136, GHSA-24wj-qprw-6f7x, MGASA-2015-0002, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8136.