CVE-2024-2496

MEDIUM

libvirt - Denial of Service via udevConnectListAllInterfaces NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496

Issue Tracking, Patch issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (6)

debian/debian_linux 10.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0 (2 CPE variants)

redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0

redhat/libvirt < 9.8.0

Published Mar 18, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026