CVE Request -- libvirt: denial of service with keepalive

[Petr Matousek <pmatouse () redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:58:06PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577 is a publicly
> reported bug that details a libvirtd crash caused by a race when
> keepalive is requested but the connection is closed prior to
> establishing connection credentials.  Since this crash occurs before
> libvirtd can distinguish between read-only vs. read-write clients, it
> can be used as a denial of service attack by read-only clients, and
> therefore needs a CVE.

Upstream patches:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=173c291
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=066c8ef

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