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Alpine: multiple libvirt packages: security update to 5.9.0-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405353

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt 4.10.0 though 6.x
 before 6.1.0. A memory leak was found in the virDomainListGetStats libvirt API that is responsible for
 retrieving domain statistics when managing QEMU guests. This flaw allows unprivileged users with a read-
 only connection to cause a memory leak in the domstats command, resulting in a potential denial of
 service. (CVE-2020-12430)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12430

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 405353

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12430

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12430