CVE-2014-3657

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The virDomainListPopulate function in conf/domain_conf.c in libvirt before 1.2.9 does not clean up the lock on the list of domains, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a NULL value in the second parameter in the virConnectListAllDomains API command.

Affected products

Libvirt: through 1.2.8; 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5 (+2)

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fc22b2e74890873848b43fffae43025d22053669
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00017.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1352.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60291
http://secunia.com/advisories/62303
http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0005.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2404-1
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fc22b2e74890873848b43fffae43025d22053669
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00017.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1352.html

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