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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2023-3354
HistoryJul 11, 2023 - 5:15 p.m.

Null pointer dereference

2023-07-1117:15:00
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qemu
vnc server
null pointer
dereference
remote client
denial of service

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.2%

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the connection again, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference issue. This could allow a remote unauthenticated client to cause a denial of service.