CVE-2013-0170

CVE Details

Release Date:

2013-02-08

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c 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.

See more information about CVE-2013-0170 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	9.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (libvirt)	ELSA-2013-0199	2013-01-28

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