CVE-2013-2218

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in the virConnectListAllInterfaces method in interface/interface_backend_netcf.c in libvirt 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) via a filtering flag that causes an interface to be skipped, as demonstrated by the "virsh iface-list --inactive" command.

Affected products

libvirt: 1.0.6

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=244e0b8cf15ca2ef48d82058e728656e6c4bad11
http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980112
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=244e0b8cf15ca2ef48d82058e728656e6c4bad11
http://libvirt.org/news.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980112

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