# CVE-2013-4236: VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-08-19 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## References

- http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166

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