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CVE-2019-3840

Public on 2019-03-27
Modified on 2019-11-14
Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libvirt 2019-11-11 17:40 ALAS2-2019-1361

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H