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Medium ALAS2-2025-3115 1 CVE

Moderate: libvirt security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 5, 2026 · Updated Jan 5, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-12748: A flaw was discovered in libvirt in the XML file processing. More specifically, the parsing of user provided XML files was performed before the ACL checks. A malicious user with limited permissions could exploit this flaw by submitting a specially crafted XML file, causing libvirt to allocate too much memory on the host. The excessive memory consumption could lead to a libvirt process crash on the host, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Fixed packages 32

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-admin 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-bash-completion 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-client 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-config-network 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-network 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-kvm 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-lxc 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-debuginfo 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-devel 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-docs 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-libs 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-lock-sanlock 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-login-shell 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-nss 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.3.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-12748.html