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cvelistRedhatCVELIST:CVE-2024-2494
HistoryMar 21, 2024 - 1:39 p.m.

CVE-2024-2494 Libvirt: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation

2024-03-2113:39:08
CWE-789
redhat
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libvirt
rpc
memory allocation

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.3%

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.