CVE-2013-1962

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function in the storage pool manager in libvirt 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via a large number of requests "to list all volumes for the particular pool."

Affected products

libvirt: 1.0.5

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ca697e90d5bd6a6dfb94bfb6d4438bdf9a44b739
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106906.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106921.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00022.html
http://osvdb.org/93451
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0831.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53440
http://secunia.com/advisories/53475
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/16/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59937
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028577
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1895-1

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