CVE-2015-5247 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5247?

CVE-2015-5247 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 14 Apr 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The virStorageVolCreateXML API in libvirt 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 allows remote authenticated users with a read-write connection to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by triggering a failed unlink after creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5247?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Libvirt.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5247?

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-2015-5247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5247, GHSA-xq4r-xr6r-76qw.