CVE-2013-4296

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats function in daemon/remote.c in libvirt 0.9.1 through 0.10.1.x, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, 1.0.x before 1.0.5.6, and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted RPC call.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0
libvirt: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6 (+24)

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e7f400a110e2e3673b96518170bfea0855dd82c0
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00024.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1272.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2764
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1954-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006173
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e7f400a110e2e3673b96518170bfea0855dd82c0

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