Description
A DMA reentrancy issue leading to a use-after-free error was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code in QEMU. This issue could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416CWE-416
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- QEMU
- Published
- 7/24/2023
- Last Modified
- 11/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
qemu : qemuredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux
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