CVE-2024-3446

Summary

A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or allow arbitrary code execution within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-415: Double Free

Workarounds

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3446
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211
• https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240409105537.18308-1-philmd@linaro.org/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0007/

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6964
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3446
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211
• https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240409105537.18308-1-philmd@linaro.org/

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