REDHAT-BUG-893450
First published: Wed Jan 09 2013(Updated: )
A flaw was found in the way message freeing on connection cleanup was handled under certain error conditions. A remote user able to issue commands to libvirt daemon could use this flaw to crash libvirtd or, potentially, escalate their privilages to that of libvirtd process. Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Tingting Zheng of Red Hat.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Libvirt |
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