CVE-2018-5748

libvirt: Resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 16, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

qemu/qemu_monitor.c in libvirt allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large QEMU reply.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 1.5
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption