QEMU Flaw May Allow Guest User to Crash Host and Cause Denial of Service

CVE-2024-8354

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:
19 September 2024

Summary

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the usb_ep_get() function in hw/net/core.c when trying to get the USB endpoint from a USB device. This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8354
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313497
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CVSS V3.1

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

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Red Hat would like to thank Antoine "Gravis" Assier de Pompignan (Fuzzinglabs) and Patrick Ventuzelo (Fuzzinglabs) for reporting this issue.
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