CVE-2013-4154

critical

Description

The qemuAgentCommand function in libvirt before 1.1.1, when a guest agent is not configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to "agent based cpu (un)plug," as demonstrated by the "virsh vcpucount foobar --guest" command.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986386

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/19/12

http://libvirt.org/news.html

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=96518d4316b711c72205117f8d5c967d5127bbb6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-30

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00731