Package: libvirt
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi Guido,

Disclaimer: I have not checked to reproduce the crash, just shortly
checked latest unstable version. Have set grave as per "[...] could
allow an attacker who is able to establish a read-only connection to
libvirtd to crash libvirtd".

the following vulnerability was published for libvirt.

CVE-2013-6458[0]:
job usage issue in several APIs leading to libvirtd crash

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6458
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6458
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048631
[2] 
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=db86da5ca2109e4006c286a09b6c75bfe10676ad
    (upstream fix)

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore


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