CVE-2024-6501

Networkmanager: denial of service

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Jul 9, 2024
Updated: Nov 21, 2025
Reserved: Jul 4, 2024

Description

A flaw was found in NetworkManager. When a system running NetworkManager with DEBUG logs enabled and an interface eth1 configured with LLDP enabled, a malicious user could inject a malformed LLDP packet. NetworkManager would crash, leading to a denial of service.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NetworkManager	1.40 to before 1.48.10-2Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	1:1.48.10-2.el9_5 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	1:1.48.10-2.el9_5 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat

References

RHSA-2024:9317vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6501vdb-entry
RHBZ#2295734issue-tracking

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