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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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Languages

C
63%
XML
30%
C++
5%
11 Other
2%

30 Day Summary

Oct 6 2025 — Nov 5 2025

12 Month Summary

Nov 5 2024 — Nov 5 2025
  • 1824 Commits
    Up + 65 (3%) from previous 12 months
  • 110 Contributors
    Up + 25 (29%) from previous 12 months

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

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

Version: v11.9.0-9-gb100dab

2025-11-05
Last Analyzed
739,084
Lines of Code Analyze
0.7
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

866
Total defects
514
Outstanding
335
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 51