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.
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n | a / qemu | 8.1.0-rc0 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) | unspecified |
| Fedora | Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux | unspecified |
| Fedora | Fedora | unspecified |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.