CVE-2024-4693

May 14, 2024, 4:11 p.m.

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
2024-05-14
CVE-2024-4693
CWE-672

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

QEMU

Description

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.

Weaknesses

Date

Published: May 14, 2024, 3:44 p.m.

Last Modified: May 14, 2024, 4:11 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability Score
Impact Score
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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