CVE-2023-3301

MEDIUM

QEMU - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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