CVE-2014-1447

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive function in libvirt before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by closing a connection before a keepalive response is sent.

Affected products

libvirt: through 1.2.0; 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.0.6 (+103)

References

http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56321
http://secunia.com/advisories/56446
http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029695
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577

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