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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-12430

A memory leak was found in the virDomainListGetStats libvirt API that is responsible for retrieving domain statistics when managing QEMU guests.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.27%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.27% probability · 82th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-401
Affected
redhat/libvirt · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.