CVE-2024-2494
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.2 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Mar 21, 2024
Updated: Jun 10, 2024
CWE ID 789
Summary
CVE-2024-2494: A vulnerability was discovered in the RPC library APIs of libvirt. The RPC server's deserialization code allocates memory incorrectly, leading to a crash when a negative length is passed to the g_new0 function. This issue allows a local, unprivileged user to execute a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash. The flaw arises from the RPC server's failure to perform a proper length check before memory allocation.
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Affected Products
- libvirt
Affected Vendors
- Libvirt
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