NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi package, versions <0:10.5.0-7.el9_5.alma.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX9-LIBVIRTDAEMONDRIVERSTORAGEISCSI-8383631
  • published18 Nov 2024
  • disclosed12 Nov 2024

Introduced: 12 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-8235  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi to version 0:10.5.0-7.el9_5.alma.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:9128.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi package and not the libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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