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CVE-2013-2218 json

Double free vulnerability in the virConnectListAllInterfaces method in interface/interface_backend_netcf.c in libvirt 1.0.6 allows remote a…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-2171

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • libvirt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2218

  • libvirt openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.5.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10209-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-2218 updated cvss 6.8

libvirt: virConnectListAllInterfaces crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libvirt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libvirt, libvirt-client, libvirt-python, libvirt-lock-sanlock
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-38622)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-38622 libvirt - 'virConnectListAllInterfaces' Method Denial of Service dos, 2013-07-01
  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980112 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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