CVE-2020-12430

Name
CVE-2020-12430
Description
An issue was discovered in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt 4.10.0 though 6.x before 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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804548
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828190
Patch https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=9bf9e0ae6af38c806f4672ca7b12a6b38d5a9581
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0003/
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4371-1/
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D5GE6ISYUL3CIWO3FQRUGMKTKP2NYED2/
cve@mitre.org https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9bf9e0ae6af38c806f4672ca7b12a6b38d5a9581
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D5GE6ISYUL3CIWO3FQRUGMKTKP2NYED2/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* libvirt >= 4.10.0 < 6.1.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
libvirt 3.11-main 5.9.0-r2 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> fixed
libvirt 3.10-main 5.5.0-r2 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> fixed