CVE-2024-4418
MEDIUMRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - Stack Use-After-Free via virtproxyd Race Condition
Title source: llmDescription
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
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250411-0002/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4IE44UIIC3QWBFRB4EUSFNLJBU6JLNSD/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Q4ZQBAJVHIZMCZNTRPUW3ZKXRKLXRQZU/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4351
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4432
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4757
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4418
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
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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