CVE - CVE-2013-6456

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-6456	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The LXC driver (lxc/lxc_driver.c) in libvirt 1.0.1 through 1.2.1 allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary host devices via the virDomainDeviceDettach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; (2) create arbitrary nodes (mknod) via the virDomainDeviceAttach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; and cause a denial of service (shutdown or reboot host OS) via the (3) virDomainShutdown or (4) virDomainReboot API and a symlink attack on /dev/initctl in the container, related to "paths under /proc/$PID/root" and the virInitctlSetRunLevel function.
References
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MISC:56187 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/56187 MISC:56215 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/56215 MISC:60895 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/60895 MISC:65743 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65743 MISC:FEDORA-2014-2864 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129199.html MISC:GLSA-201412-04 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml MISC:http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fc590ad9f4 URL:http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fc590ad9f4 MISC:http://libvirt.org/news.html URL:http://libvirt.org/news.html MISC:http://security.libvirt.org/2013/0018.html URL:http://security.libvirt.org/2013/0018.html MISC:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732394 URL:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732394 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045643 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045643 MISC:openSUSE-SU-2014:0593 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00004.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20131104	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20131104)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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