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CVE request: libvirt: several API calls do not honour read-only connection


From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:37:02 -0500 (EST)

"It has been found that several libvirt API calls (virNodeDeviceDettach,
virNodeDeviceReset, virDomainRevertToSnapshot, virDomainSnapshotDelete) did not
honour read-only connection. Remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the
host server (DoS)."

Reference: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683650

Thanks,
--
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team


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