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Debian LTS DLA-3778-1 Severe: Libvirt Denial Of Service Flaws

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 1, 2024
Dist Debian Esm H88
A series of flaws in libvirt have been identified, which may result in service interruption or potential data leaks; users are advised to apply updates.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libvirt, a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of Linux, which could lead to denial of service or information disclosu...

Summary

CVE-2020-10703

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the libvirt API that is responsible for
fetching a storage pool based on its target path. In more detail, this flaw affects
storage pools created without a target path such as network-based pools like gluster
and RBD. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to
crash the libvirt daemon, resulting in a potential denial of service.

CVE-2020-12430

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-2020-25637

A double free memory issue was found in the libvirt API that is responsible for
requesting information about network interfaces of a running QEMU domain. This flaw

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Package: libvirt
Version: 5.0.0-4+deb10u2
CVE ID: CVE-2020-10703 CVE-2020-12430 CVE-2020-25637 CVE-2021-3631
Debian Bug: 959447 971555 990709 991594 1002535 1009075 1066058 1067461

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