CVE-2024-8612
Qemu-kvm: information leak in virtio devices
At a glance
- Severity
- LOW 3.8
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.20 % · percentile 10 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Deferred
Description
A flaw was found in QEMU, in the virtio-scsi, virtio-blk, and virtio-crypto devices. The size for virtqueue_push as set in virtio_scsi_complete_req / virtio_blk_req_complete / virito_crypto_req_complete could be larger than the true size of the data which has been sent to guest. Once virtqueue_push() finally calls dma_memory_unmap to ummap the in_iov, it may call the address_space_write function to write back the data. Some uninitialized data may exist in the bounce.buffer, leading to an information leak.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | LOW 3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | LOW 3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-49297
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-8612
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0326 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0316 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8612
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313760
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/637b0aa139565cb82a7b9269e62214f87082635c
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0006/
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 |