CVE-2024-4693

Published: May 14, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-672

Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release

The product uses, accesses, or otherwise operates on a resource after that resource has been expired, released, or revoked.

References (5)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279965

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279965

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0007/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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