CVE-2014-8131

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The qemu implementation of virConnectGetAllDomainStats in libvirt before 1.2.11 does not properly handle locks when a domain is skipped due to ACL restrictions, which allows a remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (deadlock or segmentation fault and crash) via a request to access the users does not have privileges to access.

Affected products

libvirt: through 1.2.10

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00005.html
http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00005.html
http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0008.html

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