CVE-2024-8235
Libvirt: crash of virtinterfaced via virconnectlistinterfaces()
CVSS Score
6.2
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
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.
| CWE | CWE-476 |
| Published | Aug 30, 2024 |
| Last Updated | Nov 8, 2025 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Affected Versions
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
All versions affected References
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9128 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308680 lists.libvirt.org: https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/X6WOVCL6QF3FQRFIIXL736RFZVSUWLWJ/ security.netapp.com: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240920-0006/