Is CVE-2013-0170 being actively exploited?

CVE-2013-0170 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-0170?

CVE-2013-0170 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 6.8 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2013-0170

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.8%EU EUVD

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c in libvirt 1.0.x before 1.0.2, 0.10.2 before 0.10.2.3, 0.9.11 before 0.9.11.9, and 0.9.6 before 0.9.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering certain errors during an RPC connection, which causes a message to be freed without being removed from the message queue.

Key facts

CVSS score: 6.8 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-416
EPSS score: 5.8% (93th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2013-0209)
Published: February 8, 2013
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-0209 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
fedoraproject / fedora
fedoraproject / fedora
fedoraproject / fedora
opensuse / opensuse
opensuse / opensuse
redhat / enterprise linux desktop
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux server
redhat / enterprise linux workstation
redhat / libvirt
suse / linux enterprise desktop
suse / linux enterprise server
suse / linux enterprise software development kit

Certified products that may be affected

2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived

References

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46532e3e8ed5f5a736a02f67d6c805492f9ca720
http://libvirt.org/news.html(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098326.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098370.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098398.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00016.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://osvdb.org/89644(Broken Link)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0199.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/52001(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/52003(Third Party Advisory)
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57578(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028047(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1708-1(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893450(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81552(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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