CVE-2014-3672

medium
Published 2016-05-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host disk consumption) by writing to stdout or stderr.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3672

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://libvirt.org/news-2015.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-180.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3672.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.4.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.4.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.4.0-1
debian debiansidfixed4.4.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.4.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt{"endIncluding":"1.2.21"}

References

CWEs

CWE-400

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