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.
Published: 2023-09-13
Score: 5.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-43974 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6567-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Qemu Qemu
Redhat Advanced Virtualization Enterprise Linux Openstack
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:55:04.152Z

Reserved: 2023-06-17T16:48:21.977Z

Link: CVE-2023-3301

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:48:08.418Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-13T17:15:10.063

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:16:57.723

Link: CVE-2023-3301

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-3301 - Bugzilla

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