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Debian: CVE-2024-2494: libvirt -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2024-2494: libvirt -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/21/2024
Created
04/04/2024
Added
04/03/2024
Modified
04/03/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libvirt

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