Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-2494

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  - 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. (CVE-2024-2494)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
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        "release": "14.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libvirt-bin"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-dev"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-doc"},
          {"reference": "libvirt0"},
          {"reference": "libvirt0-dbg"}
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      }
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  },
  "Ubuntu Linux-16.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
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      {
        "release": "16.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libvirt-bin"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-dev"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-doc"},
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  "Ubuntu Linux-18.04": {
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          {"reference": "libvirt-bin"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-clients"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-sheepdog"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs"},
          {"reference": "libvirt-daemon-system"},
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          {"reference": "libvirt-doc"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_NOTE,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}