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CVE-2011-1486
libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 3.3LowCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
libvirtd in libvirt before 0.9.0 does not use thread-safe error reporting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing multiple threads to report errors at the same time.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.3 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134583 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 44459 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0479 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f44bfb7fb978c9313ce050a1c4149bf04aa0a670 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1025477 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 47148 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1152-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693391 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [libvirt] 20110323 [PATCH] Make error reporting in libvirtd thread safe (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-2280 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2011-1489 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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