Race condition in libvirt - CVE-2023-3750
Published: July 26, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU78694
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3750
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libvirt.org
Affected software:
libvirt
libvirt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition within the virStoragePoolObjListSearch() function. which does not return a locked pool as expected. A remote attacker with ability to connect to the read-only socket can crash the libvirt daemon.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-3750
Install updates from vendor's website.