SB2020050513 - Denial of service in libvirt
Published: May 5, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020050513
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12430)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the domstats command, resulting in a potential denial of service due to an error in the qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread() in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.