Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2366-1: Moderate Denial of Service in libvirt

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September 30, 2014

Several security issues were fixed in libvirt.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libvirt.

Software Description:

- libvirt: Libvirt virtualization toolkit

Details:

Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly

handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An

attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a

denial of service on all affected releases, or possibly read arbitrary

files if fine grained access control was enabled on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

(CVE-2014-0179, CVE-2014-5177)

Luyao Huang discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain blkiotune

queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash,

resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04

LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3633)

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security issue update Ubuntu libvirt

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libvirt-bin                     1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.5
  libvirt0                        1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.5

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libvirt-bin                     0.9.8-2ubuntu17.20
  libvirt0                        0.9.8-2ubuntu17.20

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libvirt-bin                     0.7.5-5ubuntu27.25
  libvirt0                        0.7.5-5ubuntu27.25

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