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.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libvirt | Redhat | * | 5.0.0 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RedHat | libvirt-0:4.5.0-23.el7 | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Libvirt | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00101.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663051
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3840
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00101.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2294
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663051
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3840
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZRP2BRMI4RYFRPNFTTIAAUOGVN2ORP7/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-January/msg00241.html