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Alpine: multiple libvirt packages: security update to 10.7.0-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426616

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-8235)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-8235

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 426616

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8235

IAVA: 2025-A-0321-S