CVE-2024-8235

CVE Details

Release Date:

2024-08-29

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2024-8235 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS Scoring

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.1 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.2	CVSS Vector:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 9 (libvirt)	ELSA-2024-9128	2024-11-14