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Ubuntu 13.04 USN-1895-1 Critical: Libvirt Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2013
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1234-1 addresses a vulnerable version of the curl package that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through specially crafted HTTP requests.
libvirt could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

libvirt could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- libvirt: Libvirt virtualization toolkit

Details:

It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain storage pool

requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libvirt to

consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu network attack libvirt

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libvirt0                        1.0.2-0ubuntu11.13.04.2

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1895-1

CVE-2013-1962

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July 02, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu network attack libvirt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/1.0.2-0ubuntu11.13.04.2

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