CVE-2024-2494

medium

Description

A flaw was found in the RPC library APIs of libvirt. The RPC server deserialization code allocates memory for arrays before the non-negative length check is performed by the C API entry points. Passing a negative length to the g_new0 function results in a crash due to the negative length being treated as a huge positive number. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.

References

https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/BKRQXPLPC6B7FLHJXSBQYW7HNDEBW6RJ/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270115

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2494

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3253

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2560

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-03-21

Updated: 2024-09-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium