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CVE-2014-3672

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host disk consumption) by writing to stdout or stderr.

Affected products

• libvirt: through 1.2.21
• xen: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/5
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035945
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-180.html
• https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d968ad715475a1660779bcdd2c5b38ad63db4cf
• https://libvirt.org/news-2015.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/5
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035945
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-180.html
• https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d968ad715475a1660779bcdd2c5b38ad63db4cf
• https://libvirt.org/news-2015.html

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