Description
A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617CWE-362
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- QEMU
- Published
- 9/13/2023
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
qemu : qemuredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux
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