CVE-2019-3840CWE-476

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

Medium · published March 27, 2019

CVSS v3.0
5.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01482 · 73.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2019-03-27T12:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 12:24Z
    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
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