NetSight
medium5.6

CVE-2023-3301

A flaw was found in QEMU.

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
through 8.0.3
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification

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