CVE-2024-2496
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-18 12:54
Modified
2024-11-06 14:53
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Libvirt: null pointer dereference in udevconnectlistallinterfaces()
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
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