NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wireshark-plugin-libvirt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-WIRESHARKPLUGINLIBVIRT-2753428
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed12 Apr 2019

Introduced: 12 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-3840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark-plugin-libvirt package and not the wireshark-plugin-libvirt package as distributed by SLES.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt before version 5.0.0 in the way it gets interface information through the QEMU agent. An attacker in a guest VM can use this flaw to crash libvirtd and cause a denial of service.