medium5.8
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.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Libvirt | before 5.0.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 42.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html
- 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/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html