CVE-2023-3354
HIGHQEMU < 8.1.0 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via VNC Server Connection Cleanup
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MURWGXDIF2WTDXV36T6HFJDBL632AO7R/
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3354
Issue Tracking, Patch issue-tracking
x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2216478
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