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Analyzed about 22 hours ago. based on code collected about 23 hours ago.

Project Summary

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but since ported to other virtualization technologies, QEmu and KVM.

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kvm library qemu virtualization xen

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities

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C
65%
XML
28%
C++
5%
11 Other
2%

30 Day Summary

Jun 2 2025 — Jul 2 2025

12 Month Summary

Jul 2 2024 — Jul 2 2025
  • 1819 Commits
    Down -47 (2%) from previous 12 months
  • 105 Contributors
    Up + 25 (31%) from previous 12 months
 

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

Repository URL: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git

Version: v11.5.0-1-g7b54da1

2025-07-02
Last Analyzed
736,960
Lines of Code Analyze
0.71
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

857
Total defects
522
Outstanding
318
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 58