CVE-2023-3354

HIGH

QEMU < 8.1.0 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via VNC Server Connection Cleanup

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 31.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (7)
fedoraproject/fedora 38
qemu/qemu 8.1.0 rc0 (2 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu < 8.1.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0 (2 CPE variants)
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat/openstack_platform 13.0
Published Jul 11, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026