| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3778-1, ELA-1161-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1067461 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libvirt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.2.9-9+deb8u8 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.0.0-4+deb9u5 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.0-4+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.0.0-4+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 7.0.0-3+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.0.0-4+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.9.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270115
https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/BKRQXPLPC6B7FLHJXSBQYW7HNDEBW6RJ/
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/8a3f8d957507c1f8223fdcf25a3ff885b15557f2 (v10.2.0-rc1)