CVE-2011-1486

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing multiple threads to report errors at the same time.

Affected products

libvirt: through 0.8.8; 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.0.6 (+48)

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670
http://secunia.com/advisories/44459
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025477
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134583
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2280
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0478.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0479.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47148
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693391
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-March/msg01087.html
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670

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