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Permalink CVE-2024-2496
5.0 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Libvirt: null pointer dereference in udevconnectlistallinterfaces()

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.

References

Affected products

libvirt
  • ==9.8.0
  • <9.7.0
  • *
virt:av/libvirt
virt:rhel/libvirt

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.libvirt

Toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other OSes

  • nixos-unstable -

pkgs.libvirt-glib

Wrapper library of libvirt for glib-based applications

  • nixos-unstable -

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