6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-12430

Published: 28/04/2020 Updated: 01/04/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 356
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt 4.10.0 though 6.x prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #959447 libvirt: CVE-2020-12430 Package: src:libvirt; Maintainer for src:libvirt is Debian Libvirt Maintainers <pkg-libvirt-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 13:33:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstr ...
Several security issues were fixed in libvirt ...