CVE-2021-4147

Publication date 25 March 2022

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in the libvirt libxl driver. A malicious guest could continuously reboot itself and cause libvirtd on the host to deadlock or crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvirt 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Fixed 7.6.0-0ubuntu1.2
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.16
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.21
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libvirt

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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