Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-2496 — cbl2 libvirt
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 libvirt 7.10.0-10 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 libvirt 7.10.0-8 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 7.10.0-8 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-2496
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the udevConnectListAllInterfaces() function in libvirt. This issue can occur when detaching a host interface while at the same time collecting the list of interfaces via virConnectListAllInterfaces API. This flaw could be used to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-2496, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).