CVE-2013-4154
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The qemuAgentCommand function in libvirt before 1.1.1, when a guest agent is not configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to "agent based cpu (un)plug," as demonstrated by the "virsh vcpucount foobar --guest" command.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.1.0-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.1.0-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.1.0-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.1.0-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.1.0-4 |
References
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=96518d4316b711c72205117f8d5c967d5127bbb6
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/19/12
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984821
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986386
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4154
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.