Denial of service in Gnome NetworkManager



Published: 2024-10-25
Risk Medium
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-6501
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		NetworkManager
Server applications / Remote management servers, RDP, SSH

Vendor Gnome Development Team

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU99353

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6501

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when a system running NetworkManager with DEBUG logs enabled and an interface eth1 configured with LLDP enabled. A remote attacker can send a malformed LLDP packet to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

NetworkManager: All versions

CPE2.3 External links

http://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6501
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295734


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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