Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libvirt-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed15 May 2023
Introduced: 15 May 2023
CVE-2023-2700 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-devel package and not the libvirt-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
A vulnerability was found in libvirt. This security flaw ouccers due to repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI device's capabilities that exposes a memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction array within the parent struct's g_autoptr cleanup.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2700
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203653
- https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/6425a311b8ad19d6f9c0b315bf1d722551ea3585#874a1e768ade6ceb4538931cbc06248e73223306
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EVK6JKP36CHE7YAFDJNPNLTW4OWJJ7TQ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230706-0001/