CVE-2023-3301CWE-617
Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
Medium · published September 13, 2023
What it is
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.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.6 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00259 · 16.7th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion
- Published
- 2023-09-13T16:09Z
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