CVE-2023-3301
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.6 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2023-09-13
- Last modified
- 2025-02-13
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-617
Affected products
- Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux (Fedora)
- Fedora (Fedora)
- Qemu (Qemu)
- Advanced Virtualization (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Openstack (Redhat)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215784
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/