CVE-2013-0170

medium
Published 2013-02-08 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.12-6
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.12-6
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.12-6
debian debiansidfixed0.9.12-6
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.12-6
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel6.3affected
suse suse12.1affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse11affected
fedora fedora16affected
fedora fedora17affected
fedora fedora18affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt{"startIncluding":"0.9.6","endExcluding":"0.9.6.4"}0.9.6.4

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.