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CVE-2019-3840

medium

Description

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00101.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3840

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663051

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-03-27

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0073