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.
Published: 2024-05-10
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-44292 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7094-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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Title Qemu: virtio-pci: improper release of configure vector leads to guest triggerable crash Qemu-kvm: virtio-pci: improper release of configure vector leads to guest triggerable crash

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Redhat Advanced Virtualization Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-08T07:13:46.427Z

Reserved: 2024-05-09T14:49:40.107Z

Link: CVE-2024-4693

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Updated: 2024-08-28T15:02:50.339Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-14T15:44:26.070

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-4693

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-4693 - Bugzilla

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