6.2 MEDIUM
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
- Attack complexity (AC): LOW
- Privileges required (PR): NONE
- User interaction (UI): NONE
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
- Integrity impact (I): NONE
- Availability impact (A): HIGH
Libvirt: crash of virtinterfaced via virconnectlistinterfaces()
A flaw was found in libvirt. A refactor of the code fetching the list of interfaces for multiple APIs introduced a corner case on platforms where allocating 0 bytes of memory results in a NULL pointer. This corner case would lead to a NULL-pointer dereference and subsequent crash of virtinterfaced. This issue could allow clients connecting to the read-only socket to crash the virtinterfaced daemon.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
- RHSA-2024:9128 vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 x_refsource_REDHAT vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2308680 issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6…
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
Affected products
- <10.7.0
- *
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.libvirt
Toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other OSes
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 11.6.0
pkgs.libvirt-glib
Wrapper library of libvirt for glib-based applications
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 5.0.0
pkgs.python312Packages.libvirt
Libvirt Python bindings
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 11.6.0
pkgs.python313Packages.libvirt
Libvirt Python bindings
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 11.6.0
pkgs.rubyPackages.ruby-libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4
pkgs.prometheus-libvirt-exporter
Prometheus metrics exporter for libvirt
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 2.3.3
pkgs.terraform-providers.libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.3
pkgs.rubyPackages_3_1.ruby-libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4
pkgs.rubyPackages_3_2.ruby-libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4
pkgs.rubyPackages_3_3.ruby-libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4
pkgs.rubyPackages_3_4.ruby-libvirt
None
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4
Package maintainers
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@globin Robin Gloster <mail@glob.in>
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@fpletz Franz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de>
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@lovesegfault Bernardo Meurer <meurerbernardo@gmail.com>
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@farcaller Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com>