CVE-2015-5247

libvirt: denial of service when volume creation fails on NFS pool

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.7

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 3, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The virStorageVolCreateXML API in libvirt 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 allows remote authenticated users with a read-write connection to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by triggering a failed unlink after creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.7
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified