CVE-2013-0170

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-0170
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-02-08 20:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-416 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Libvirt All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0320-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
libvirt: Wiki: Maintenance Releases af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.libvirt.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libvirt-0.9.6.4-1.fc16 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA52001 - Red Hat update for libvirt - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org/89644 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libvirt-0.10.2.3-1.fc18 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
USN-1708-1: libvirt vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0274-1: important: libvirt to fix u af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug 893450 – CVE-2013-0170 libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree() af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libvirt-0.9.11.9-1.fc17 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA52003 - libvirt "virNetMessageFree()" Use-After-Free Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0275-1: important: update for libvi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
libvirt: Releases af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libvirt.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
libvirt Use-After-Free May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
libvirt.org Git - libvirt.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libvirt.org
libvirt 'virNetMessageFree()' Function Use After Free Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
libvirt.org Git - libvirt.git/commit MITRE libvirt.org
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2013-0170 MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900035 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for libvirt 6.1.0
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