Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Mar 21, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2024-2494
CVE-2024-2494
Description
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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
7- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2560nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3253nvd
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2494nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.htmlnvd
- lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/BKRQXPLPC6B7FLHJXSBQYW7HNDEBW6RJ/nvd
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240517-0009/nvd
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