CVE-2023-3301
Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.6 Medium
- Published
- Sep 13, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Jun 17, 2023
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.6 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
qemun/a |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced VirtualizationRed Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat | |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Red Hat | |
Extra Packages for Enterprise LinuxFedora | |
FedoraFedora |
References
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