CVSS 3.1
6.2 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-2494
Medium (6.2). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-789
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2560
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3253
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2494
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270115
- https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/BKRQXPLPC6B7FLHJXSBQYW7HNDEBW6RJ/