CVE-2014-0179: Opensuse

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libvirt 0.7.5 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (read block and hang) via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virConnectCompareCPU or (2) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors. CVE-2014-5177 is used for other API methods.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Libvirt: version 0.7.5 only; version 0.7.6 only; version 0.7.7 only; version 0.8.0 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only; …

Published 2014-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.