CVE-2023-2700

A vulnerability was found in libvirt. This security flaw ouccers due to repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI devices capabilities that exposes a memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction array within the parent structs g_autoptr cleanup.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2700
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203653
• https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/6425a311b8ad19d6f9c0b315bf1d722551ea3585#874a1e768ade6ceb4538931cbc06248e73223306
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EVK6JKP36CHE7YAFDJNPNLTW4OWJJ7TQ/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230706-0001/