CVE-2014-8136

low

Published 2014-12-19 · 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

2.1

Description

The (1) qemuDomainMigratePerform and (2) qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt do not unlock the domain when an ACL check fails, which allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.10	Affected	—
15.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.2.9-7`
sid	Fixed	`1.2.9-7`
forky	Fixed	`1.2.9-7`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.2.9-7`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.2.9-7`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	libvirt	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.