Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU99353
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6501
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe 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.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's repository.
Vulnerable software versionsopenEuler: 24.03 LTS
NetworkManager-help: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-config-server: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-wwan: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-wifi: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-team: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-ppp: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-libnm-devel: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-libnm: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-debugsource: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-debuginfo: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-cloud-setup: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager-bluetooth: before 1.44.2-3
NetworkManager: before 1.44.2-3
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://www.openeuler.org/en/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2024-2291
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.