#VU11450 Resource exhaustion in libvirt - CVE-2018-1064
Published: April 2, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11450
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1064
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
libvirt
libvirt
Software vendor:
libvirt.org
libvirt.org
Description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the qemu_agent.c source code file due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-5748 that affects the QEMU monitor. A local attacker can consume excessive amounts of memory resources and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Update to version 4.2.0-rc1.