Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3975 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A use-after-free flaw was found in libvirt. The qemuMonitorUnregister() function in qemuProcessHandleMonitorEOF is called using multiple threads without being adequately protected by a monitor lock. This flaw could be triggered by the virConnectGetAllDomainStats API when the guest is shutting down. An unprivileged client with a read-only connection could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3975
- https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/1ac703a7d0789e46833f4013a3876c2e3af18ec7
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3975
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024326
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221201-0002/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html