CVE-2023-3301
MEDIUMQEMU - DoS
Title source: llmDescription
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.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.6
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
0.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-362
CWE-617
Status
published
Affected Products (3)
qemu/qemu
< 8.0.3
redhat/enterprise_linux
redhat/enterprise_linux
Timeline
Published
Sep 13, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026