CVE-2014-3633

medium
Published 2014-10-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

The qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune function in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt before 1.2.9, when a disk has been hot-plugged or removed from the live image, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive heap information via a crafted blkiotune query, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.8-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.8-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.8-2
debian debiansidfixed1.2.8-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.8-2
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libvirtlibvirt{"endIncluding":"1.2.8"}
libvirtlibvirt1.2.0
libvirtlibvirt1.2.1
libvirtlibvirt1.2.2
libvirtlibvirt1.2.3
libvirtlibvirt1.2.4
libvirtlibvirt1.2.5
libvirtlibvirt1.2.6
libvirtlibvirt1.2.7

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.