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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-0170 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46532e3e8ed5f5a736a02f67d6c805492f9ca720 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://libvirt.org/news.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098326.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098370.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098398.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00016.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://osvdb.org/89644 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0199.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/52001 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/52003 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57578 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028047 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1708-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893450 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81552 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-0170
NVD Published Date:
02/08/2013
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.