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CVE-2014-1447

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1447 describes a race condition in libvirt versions prior to 1.2.1, specifically within the virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive function, impacting Red Hat libvirt products. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by prematurely closing a connection before a keepalive response is sent. While the attack complexity is low, the impact is limited to availability, resulting in a CVSS score of 3.3. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0234 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 94 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.10.2-29.el6_5.3
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-1447Moderate

libvirt: denial of service with keepalive

Dec 31, 2013

References

libvirt.org / news.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00062.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0103.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56321
secunia.com / advisories/56446
secunia.com / advisories/60895
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2846
securitytracker.com / id/1029695
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2093-1