CVE-2014-3657: Libvirt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The virDomainListPopulate function in conf/domain_conf.c in libvirt before 1.2.9 does not clean up the lock on the list of domains, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a NULL value in the second parameter in the virConnectListAllDomains API command.

Affected products

• Libvirt Libvirt: up to and including 1.2.8; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; …

Published 2014-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.