CVE-2024-4693

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

5.5
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
QEMU

Weaknesses

References

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

Tags

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

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
    • View Vector String

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

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

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