QEMU Flaw Allows Malicious Guest to Crash QEMU and Cause Denial of Service
CVE-2024-3567

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 April 2024

Summary

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the update_sctp_checksum() function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c when trying to calculate the checksum of a short-sized fragmented packet. This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash QEMU and cause a denial of service condition.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3567
vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274339
issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2273

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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