[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#959447: libvirt: CVE-2020-12430

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libvirt
Version: 6.0.0-6
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Control: found -1 5.0.0-4+deb10u1
Control: found -1 4.10.0-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libvirt.

CVE-2020-12430[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12430
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12430

Regards,
Salvatore