ubuntu-cve-2024-8235
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-08-30 17:15
Modified
2025-07-16 05:12
Summary
Details
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
6.2 (Medium)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
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"aliases": [],
"details": "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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-8235",
"modified": "2025-07-16T05:12:08Z",
"published": "2024-08-30T17:15:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-8235"
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"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8235"
},
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"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8235"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308680"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/X6WOVCL6QF3FQRFIIXL736RFZVSUWLWJ/"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2024-8235"
],
"withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:56:19Z"
}
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