CVE-2024-3446
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 23 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or allow arbitrary code execution within the context of the QEMU process on the host.
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affected products (19)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2024-0832QEMU: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Codeausführung und DoSDeutsch2024-04-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in QEMU ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen oder einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen.
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references (14)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3446cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2024-3446/cnnvd
- https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240409105537.18308-1-philmd@linaro.org/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-corruption-via-mem-reentrancy-guard-44020cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6964enisa_euvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3446enisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211enisa_euvd
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