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Medium ALSA-2024:2560 2 CVEs

Moderate: libvirt security and bug fix update

Published Apr 30, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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() [almalinux-9] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-25081)
* libvirt: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation [almalinux-9] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-29515)

Fixed packages 31

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-client 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-client-qemu 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-common 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-config-network 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-network 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-kvm 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-lock 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-log 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-plugin-sanlock 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-daemon-proxy 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-devel 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-docs 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-libs 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 9 libvirt-nss 10.0.0-6.2.el9_4.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1441
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2494
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2263841
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2270115
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2560.html