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CVE-2014-0179

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libvirt 0.7.5 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (read block and hang) via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virConnectCompareCPU or (2) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors. CVE-2014-5177 is used for other API methods.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Virtualization: 3.0
• libvirt: 0.7.5, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2 (+65)

References

• http://libvirt.org/news.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00052.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0560.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
• http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0003.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3038
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2366-1
• http://libvirt.org/news.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00052.html

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