USN-6763-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-4418)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-05-07 11:21 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:37 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
libvirt vulnerability
Details
Martin Širokov discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to access virtproxyd without authorization.
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"database_specific": {
"cves_map": {
"cves": [
{
"id": "CVE-2024-4418",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
]
}
],
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS"
}
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libnss-libvirt",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-clients",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-clients-qemu",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-config-network",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-xen",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-system",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-system-systemd",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-system-sysv",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-l10n",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-login-shell",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-sanlock",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt-wireshark",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
},
{
"binary_name": "libvirt0",
"binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
"name": "libvirt",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libvirt@10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"9.6.0-1ubuntu1",
"9.6.0-1ubuntu2",
"10.0.0-1ubuntu1",
"10.0.0-2ubuntu1",
"10.0.0-2ubuntu5",
"10.0.0-2ubuntu7",
"10.0.0-2ubuntu8",
"10.0.0-2ubuntu8.1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "Martin \u0160irokov discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain memory\noperations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to access\nvirtproxyd without authorization.\n",
"id": "USN-6763-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:08Z",
"published": "2024-05-07T11:21:40Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6763-1"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-4418"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "libvirt vulnerability",
"upstream": [
"UBUNTU-CVE-2024-4418"
]
}
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