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CVE-2017-2635

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer deference flaw was found in the way libvirt from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0 handled empty drives. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libvirtd daemon resulting in denial of service.

Affected products

• libvirt: from 2.5.0 through 3.0.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2635
• https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3de387380f6057ee0e46cd9f2f0a092e8070875
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2635
• https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3de387380f6057ee0e46cd9f2f0a092e8070875

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