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CVE-2023-3750: Libvirt: improper locking in virstoragepoolobjlistsearch may lead to denial of service

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-07-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-667

Description

A flaw was found in libvirt. The virStoragePoolObjListSearch function does not return a locked pool as expected, resulting in a race condition and denial of service when attempting to lock the same object from another thread. This issue could allow clients connecting to the read-only socket to crash the libvirt daemon.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 9.0
• libvirt: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6409
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3750
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222210
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6409
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3750
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222210
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EVK6JKP36CHE7YAFDJNPNLTW4OWJJ7TQ/

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