VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0179

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Published 2014-08-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.9

Description

libvirt 0.7.5 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (read block and hang) via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virConnectCompareCPU or (2) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors. CVE-2014-5177 is used for other API methods.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
12.3 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.2.4-1
sid Fixed 1.2.4-1
forky Fixed 1.2.4-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2.4-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.6.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.6.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.6.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.9
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.10
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.11.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.12
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.13
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.10.2.8
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.0
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.1
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.2
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.3
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.4
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.1
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.2
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.3
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.4
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.5
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.5.6
redhat redhatlibvirt1.0.6
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.0
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.1
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.2
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.3
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.4
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.0
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.1
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.2
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.3
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.4
redhat redhatenterprise_virtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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