CVE-2023-3301

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-617: Reachable Assertion

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional 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/

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

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/

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