Libvirt
CVE-2023-2700
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Resource cleanup, leak prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could exhaust available memory leading to denial of service. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A vulnerability was found in libvirt. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Memory Leak vulnerability could allow attackers to exhaust available memory leading to denial of service.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Ensure all allocated memory is properly freed. Use RAII patterns or garbage-collected languages.
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This vulnerability is classified as Memory Leak (CWE-401), which allows attackers to exhaust available memory leading to denial of service. A vulnerability was found in libvirt. This security flaw ouccers due to repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI device's capabilities that exposes a memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction array within the parent struct's g_autoptr cleanup. Affected products include: Redhat Libvirt, Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
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DescriptionNVD
A vulnerability was found in libvirt. This security flaw ouccers due to repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI device's capabilities that exposes a memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction array within the parent struct's g_autoptr cleanup.
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Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Double free vulnerability in the virConnectListAllInterfaces method in interface/interface_backend_netcf.c in libvirt 1.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2
A NULL pointer dereference was found in the libvirt API responsible introduced in upstream version 3.10.0, and fixed in
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt before version 5.0.0 in the way it gets interface information
libvirt before 2.0.0 improperly disables password checking when the password on a VNC server is set to an empty string,
An incorrect permissions check was discovered in libvirt 4.8.0 and above. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4), this vulnera
Double free vulnerability in the qemuAgentGetVCPUs function in qemu/qemu_agent.c in libvirt 1.0.6 through 1.1.0 allows r
The virBitmapParse function in util/virbitmap.c in libvirt before 1.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a de
A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for `/dev/mapper/control` into the QEMU process. Rated hi
A vulnerability was found in libvirt >= 4.1.0 in the virtlockd-admin.socket and virtlogd-admin.socket systemd units. Rat
The virConnectDomainXMLToNative API function in libvirt 1.1.0 through 1.1.3 checks for the connect:read permission inste
The qemuAgentCommand function in libvirt before 1.1.1, when a guest agent is not configured, allows remote attackers to
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