CVE-2013-6436

The lxcDomainGetMemoryParameters method in lxc/lxc_driver.c in libvirt 1.0.5 through 1.2.0 does not properly check the status of LXC guests when reading memory tunables, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash) via a guest in the shutdown status, as demonstrated by the "virsh memtune" command.

Date published : 2014-01-07

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=f8c1cb90213508c4f32549023b0572ed774e48aa

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml