Use After Free Affecting libvirt package, versions <4.0.0-9.40.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.64% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBVIRT-2649571
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed5 Jan 2022

Introduced: 5 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-3975  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libvirt to version 4.0.0-9.40.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

A use-after-free flaw was found in libvirt. The qemuMonitorUnregister() function in qemuProcessHandleMonitorEOF is called using multiple threads without being adequately protected by a monitor lock. This flaw could be triggered by the virConnectGetAllDomainStats API when the guest is shutting down. An unprivileged client with a read-only connection could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1