CVE-2019-3840
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-27 12:24
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt before version 5.0.0 in the way it gets interface information through the QEMU agent. An attacker in a guest VM can use this flaw to crash libvirtd and cause a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00101.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663051Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3840Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
The libvirt Projectlibvirt
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