CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-2496
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the udevConnectListAllInterfaces() function in libvirt. This issue can occur when detaching a host interface while at the same time collecting the list of interfaces via virConnectListAllInterfaces API. This flaw could be used to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.
Affected configurations
• redhat libvirt (< 9.8.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html Mailing List