CVE-2013-4296 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4296?

CVE-2013-4296 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Sep 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The remoteDispatchDomainMemoryStats function in daemon/remote.c in libvirt 0.9.1 through 0.10.1.x, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, 1.0.x before 1.0.5.6, and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted RPC call.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4296?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Libvirt.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4296?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-4296 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4296 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4296, DSA-2764-1, GHSA-vf4g-mc46-48r3.