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CVE-2024-8235

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.2 Published: 2024-08-30 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat LibvirtRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-476, CWE-476

References