CVE-2024-2494 (GCVE-0-2024-2494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-21 13:39 – Updated: 2026-02-25 19:31
VLAI
Title
Libvirt: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation
Summary
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-01 15:14 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 9.0.0 , < 9.7.0 (semver)
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 8100020240409073027.489197e6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:10.0.0-6.2.el9_4 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization     cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8
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Date Public
2024-03-21 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Kuznetsov (ALT Linux Team) for reporting this issue.
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