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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2020-473

GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2020-473
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published December 29, 2020
A double free memory issue was found to occur in the libvirt API responsible for requesting information about network interfaces of a running QEMU domain. This flaw affects the polkit access control driver. Specifically, clients connecting to the read-write socket with limited ACL permissions could use this flaw to crash the libvirt daemon, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability (CVE-2020-25637).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageialibvirt0 (affected), 5.5.0-1.3.mga7 (unaffected)

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