Memory Leak Affecting libvirt-daemon-xen package, versions <9.0.0-150500.6.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-LIBVIRTDAEMONXEN-5742000
  • published28 Jun 2023
  • disclosed27 Jun 2023

Introduced: 27 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-2700  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 libvirt-daemon-xen to version 9.0.0-150500.6.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-xen package and not the libvirt-daemon-xen package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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