CVE-2024-4693
Qemu-kvm: virtio-pci: improper release of configure vector leads to guest triggerable crash
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM 5.5
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.32 % · percentile 25 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Deferred
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.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-44292
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-4693
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0997 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| qemu | unaffected 7eeb62b0ce3a8f64647bf53f93903abd1fbb0b94 < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization | |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279965
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0007/
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |