CVE-2020-12430
MEDIUMlibvirt 4.10.0-6.x < 6.1.0 - Memory Leak in virDomainListGetStats API
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4371-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D5GE6ISYUL3CIWO3FQRUGMKTKP2NYED2/
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804548
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828190
Various Sources
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9bf9e0ae6af38c806f4672ca7b12a6b38d5a9581
Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0003/
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0072
EPSS Percentile
72.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (2)
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/libvirt
4.10.0 - 6.1.0
Published
Apr 28, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026