cve-2019-3840
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-27 12:24
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
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.
Impacted products
The libvirt Projectlibvirt
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