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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3840: libvirt A NULL pointer dereference flaw

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3840: libvirt A NULL pointer dereference flaw

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/27/2019
Created
06/22/2019
Added
06/21/2019
Modified
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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