Security Advisory

CVE-2009-0036

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-02-11 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 04:17:10
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the proxyReadClientSocket function in proxy/libvirt_proxy.c in libvirt_proxy 0.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges by sending a portion of the header of a virProxyPacket packet, and then sending the remainder of the packet with crafted values in the header, related to use of uninitialized memory in a validation check.