CVE-2014-8131

medium

Published 2015-01-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

The qemu implementation of virConnectGetAllDomainStats in libvirt before 1.2.11 does not properly handle locks when a domain is skipped due to ACL restrictions, which allows a remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (deadlock or segmentation fault and crash) via a request to access the users does not have privileges to access.

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.2.9-7`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.2.9-7`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.2.9-7`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.2.9-7`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.2.9-7`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	libvirt	`{"endIncluding":"1.2.10"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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