CVE-2023-3301

2023-09-1317:15:10

CWE-617

CWE-362

redhat

web.nvd.nist.gov

313

qemu

cve-2023-3301

flaw

race scenario

hot-unplug

denial of service

CVSS3

5.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

5.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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 configurations

Nvd

Node

qemuqemuRange≤8.0.3

Node

redhatenterprise_linuxMatch8.0

redhatenterprise_linuxMatch9.0

VendorProductVersionCPE
qemuqemu*cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhatenterprise_linux8.0cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhatenterprise_linux9.0cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
qemu	qemu	*	cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu::::::::
redhat	enterprise_linux	8.0	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
redhat	enterprise_linux	9.0	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*

CNA Affected

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    "product": "qemu",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "8.1.0-rc0",
        "status": "unaffected"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm-ma",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "virt:rhel/qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "virt:av/qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm-rhev",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13"
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux",
    "vendor": "Fedora",
    "collectionURL": "https://packages.fedoraproject.org/",
    "packageName": "qemu",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "product": "Fedora",
    "vendor": "Fedora",
    "collectionURL": "https://packages.fedoraproject.org/",
    "packageName": "qemu",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]