PT-2013-4913 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

David Gibson · Published 2013-08-19 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2013-4236

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.7

Low

Base vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization versions 3 and 3.2

Description The issue allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become unavailable to the management server by sending a guest agent response containing invalid XML characters. This is due to an incomplete fix for a previous issue.

Recommendations For Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization versions 3 and 3.2, consider restricting guest user privileges to minimize the risk of exploitation until a complete fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4236

RHSA-2013:1155

RHSA-2013:1181

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

References · 4

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4236 · Security Note
• http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166 · Note