Vulnerability in Redhat Libvirt

CVE-2014-1447

Race condition in the virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive function in libvirt before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by closing a connection before a keepalive response is sent.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.117 (93.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-1447?
CVE-2014-1447 is a vulnerability in Redhat Libvirt, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). Published 2014-01-24.
Is CVE-2014-1447 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.