RHSA-2024:2560 — Security Advisory

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.

Security Fixes:

• libvirt: off-by-one error in udevListInterfacesByStatus() (CVE-2024-1441)

• libvirt: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation (CVE-2024-2494)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fixes:

• libvirt: off-by-one error in udevListInterfacesByStatus() [rhel-9] (JIRA:RHEL-25081)

• libvirt: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation [rhel-9] (JIRA:RHEL-29515)