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CVE-2015-5247

medium
Published 2016-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The virStorageVolCreateXML API in libvirt 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 allows remote authenticated users with a read-write connection to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by triggering a failed unlink after creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.20-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.20-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.20-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.20-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.20-1
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.14
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.15
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.16
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.17
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.18
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.19

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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