VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-0170

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.77%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-02-08
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-416: Use After Free

Primary references