CVE-2023-3750

Publication date 19 July 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in libvirt. The virStoragePoolObjListSearch function does not return a locked pool as expected, resulting in a race condition and denial of service when attempting to lock the same object from another thread. This issue could allow clients connecting to the read-only socket to crash the libvirt daemon.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvirt 23.04 lunar
Fixed 9.0.0-2ubuntu1.2
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

only affects libvirt 8.3.0 and newer

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libvirt

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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