6.2

CVE-2024-8235: redhat libvirt NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.2v3.1MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2024:9128UBUNTU-CVE-2024-8235DEBIAN-CVE-2024-8235
Published 30-08-2024Last modified 08-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-8235 is a medium (CVSS 6.2) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in redhat libvirt. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.2/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 30-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in libvirt. A refactor of the code fetching the list of interfaces for multiple APIs introduced a corner case on platforms where allocating 0 bytes of memory results in a NULL pointer. This corner case would lead to a NULL-pointer dereference and subsequent crash of virtinterfaced. This issue could allow clients connecting to the read-only socket to crash the virtinterfaced daemon.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

14%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.24% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.24%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat60 products
  • libvirt≥ 10.4.0, < 10.7.0
  • libvirt< 0:10.5.0-7.el9_5
  • libvirt-client< 0:10.5.0-7.el9_5
  • libvirt-client-debuginfo< 0:10.5.0-7.el9_5
  • libvirt-client-qemu< 0:10.5.0-7.el9_5
Debian1 product
  • libvirt< 10.7.0-1
Opensuse1 product
  • libvirt&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 10.7.0-1.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • libvirt< 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20 | < 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 | < 10.0.0-2ubuntu8.3

4 vendors · 63 products

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