CVE-2015-5247

The virStorageVolCreateXML API in libvirt 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 allows remote authenticated users with a read-write connection to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by triggering a failed unlink after creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-04-14

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Libvirt (Redhat)

References

• http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0003.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2867-1