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CVE-2023-3301

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CVE-2023-3301

Published: Sep 13, 2023

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.6

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

qemu

unaffected
8.1.0-rc0

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)

All versions

Fedora

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

All versions

Fedora

Fedora

All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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