CVE-2017-2635: Red Hat Libvirt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer deference flaw was found in the way libvirt from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0 handled empty drives. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libvirtd daemon resulting in denial of service.

Affected products

• Red Hat Libvirt: from 2.5.0, up to and including 3.0.0

Published 2018-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.