Medium severity · published Aug 22, 2018
CVE-2017-2635
A NULL pointer deference flaw was found in the way libvirt from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0 handled empty drives
6.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A NULL pointer deference flaw was found in the way libvirt from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0 handled empty drives. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libvirtd daemon resulting in denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libvirt · Redhat
2.5.0 through 3.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2635
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2635
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2635
libvirt.org
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3de387380f6057ee0e46cd9f2f0a092e8070875
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