CVE-2020-12430
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.72%Published: 4/28/2020Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2020-12430DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12430
Description
An issue was discovered in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread in qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt 4.10.0 though 6.x before 6.1.0. A memory leak was found in the virDomainListGetStats libvirt API that is responsible for retrieving domain statistics when managing QEMU guests. This flaw allows unprivileged users with a read-only connection to cause a memory leak in the domstats command, resulting in a potential denial of service.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/libvirtfrom 0, < 5.5.0-r1
- Debian/libvirtfrom 0, < 6.4.0-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |