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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.6 Medium

CVE-2023-3301

Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug

Description

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n/a qemu

  • 8.1.0-rc0unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)

Default version status: unknown

Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

Default version status: unaffected

Fedora Fedora

Default version status: affected

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