Guest-Triggerable Crash in QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings Could Lead to Host Crash
CVE-2024-4693

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Status
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 May 2024

What is CVE-2024-4693?

A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release and use of the irqfd for vector 0 during the boot process leads to a guest triggerable crash via vhost_net_stop(). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279965
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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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