CVE-2019-3840

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-03-27

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Leap (Opensuse)
• Libvirt (Redhat)
• Libvirt (The Libvirt Project)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00101.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663051
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3840
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAA…
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html