CVE-2024-8235 | BDVDB-2026-247101 Detail
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Description#
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.
Impact#
Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact none, integrity impact none, availability impact high. Attack vector: local.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
References#
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9128
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308680
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6QF3FQRFIIXL736RFZVSUWLWJ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.