CVE-2023-3301

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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215784

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-13

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium