CVE-2014-7823

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-11-05

Description

It was found that when the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE flag was used, the QEMU driver implementation of the virDomainGetXMLDesc() function could bypass the restrictions of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag. A remote attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to leak certain limited information from the domain XML data.

See more information about CVE-2014-7823 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3.3	Base Metrics:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Adjacent network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (libvirt)	ELSA-2014-1873	2014-11-18
Oracle Linux version 7 (libvirt)	ELSA-2015-0008	2015-01-05

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