Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-1708-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64289

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Wenlong Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain RPC calls. A remote attacker could exploit this and cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4423)

Tingting Zheng discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled cleanup under certain error conditions. A remote attacker could exploit this and cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-0170).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libvirt-bin and / or libvirt0 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1708-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64289

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1708-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/30/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-bin

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4423, CVE-2013-0170

BID: 55541, 57578

USN: 1708-1