CVE-2013-4236
lowpriority · track · 11EPSS 0.006 · 46 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.
remediations
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A vendor fix is available.
- Fixedrhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130815.0.el6_4.noarch as a component of RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6redhat_csaf
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258 To upgrade Hypervisors in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments using the disk image provided by this package, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Hypervisor_Deployment_Guide/chap-Deployment_Guide-Upgrading_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Hypervisors.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1181
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (4)
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- redhat enterprise virtualization= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- redhat enterprise virtualization= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- RHSA-2013:1181Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update2013-08-27csaf · redhat_csafUS
An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes three security issues and various bugs is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
also known as (3)
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sources
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references (9)
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- http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6cnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.htmlcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166cnnvd
- http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6enisa_euvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166enisa_euvd
- http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6nvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.htmlVendor Advisorynvd
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