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.

CVSS v3 5.6 MEDIUM

5.6^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.1 / Impact : 4.0

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215784	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-09-13 17:15

Updated : 2023-11-07 04:18

NVD link : CVE-2023-3301

Mitre link : CVE-2023-3301

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-3301

JSON object : View

Products Affected

qemu

qemu

redhat

enterprise_linux

CWE

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-617

Reachable Assertion

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