CVE-2024-4693

Published: May 10, 2024

Modified: Nov 8, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	qemu	unaffected `7eeb62b0ce3a8f64647bf53f93903abd1fbb0b94 - < *`
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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-672

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693

vdb-entry

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RHBZ#2279965

issue-tracking

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CVE-2024-4693

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References