usn-6763-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-05-07 11:21
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
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.

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  "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",
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          },
          {
            "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",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct",
            "binary_version": "10.0.0-2ubuntu8.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd",
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          },
          {
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          {
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          {
            "binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-driver-xen",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libvirt-daemon-system",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "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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