CVE-2013-0170
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Use-after-free
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://libvirt.org/news.htmlAdvisory
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46532e3e8ed5f5a736a02f67d6c805492f9ca720
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098326.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098370.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098398.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00016.htmlAdvisory