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CVE-2011-2511

Publication date 12 July 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Integer overflow in libvirt before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VirDomainGetVcpus RPC call that triggers memory corruption.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvirt 11.04 natty
Fixed 0.8.8-1ubuntu6.5
10.10 maverick
Fixed 0.8.3-1ubuntu19.1
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 0.7.5-5ubuntu27.16
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

jdstrand

DoS is confirmed by a remote authenticated user 89d994ad6b0e8ebe9a2cd4e0e37119ff4c917550 (gnulib) may not actually be required to fix in stable releases. fixed in 0.8.3-5+squeeze2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libvirt

References

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