Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3840: libvirt A NULL pointer dereference flaw
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/27/2019
06/22/2019
06/21/2019
12/04/2019
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libvirt
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