NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo package, versions <0:10.5.0-7.4.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY9-LIBVIRTDAEMONDRIVERNWFILTERDEBUGINFO-9462045
  • published18 Mar 2025
  • disclosed30 Aug 2024

Introduced: 30 Aug 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo to version 0:10.5.0-7.4.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:9128.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo package and not the libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux: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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