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CVE-2009-0036

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.4 Published: 2009-02-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the proxyReadClientSocket function in proxy/libvirt_proxy.c in libvirt_proxy 0.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges by sending a portion of the header of a virProxyPacket packet, and then sending the remainder of the packet with crafted values in the header, related to use of uninitialized memory in a validation check.

Affected Platforms

Libvirt Libvirt

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References