vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-4693: qemu-kvm: virtio-pci: improper release of configure vector leads to guest triggerable crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 14, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release and use of the irqfd for vector 0 during the boot process leads to a guest triggerable crash via vhost_net_stop(). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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