CVE-2024-4418

MEDIUM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - Stack Use-After-Free via virtproxyd Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A race condition leading to a stack use-after-free flaw was found in libvirt. Due to a bad assumption in the virNetClientIOEventLoop() method, the `data` pointer to a stack-allocated virNetClientIOEventData structure ended up being used in the virNetClientIOEventFD callback while the data pointer's stack frame was concurrently being "freed" when returning from virNetClientIOEventLoop(). The 'virtproxyd' daemon can be used to trigger requests. If libvirt is configured with fine-grained access control, this issue, in theory, allows a user to escape their otherwise limited access. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to access virtproxyd without authenticating. Remote users would need to authenticate before they could access it.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4351
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4432
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4757
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4418
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278616

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 67.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-562
Status published
Products (6)
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 8100020240606142719.489197e6
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:10.0.0-6.6.el9_4
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support 0:9.0.0-10.7.el9_2
Published May 08, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026