Description
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.
Published: 2019-03-27
Score: 5.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-13460 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3909-1 libvirt vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux Libvirt
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:19:18.580Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-3840

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-27T13:29:01.680

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:42:40.563

Link: CVE-2019-3840

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-01-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-3840 - Bugzilla

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