Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
CVE-2023-3301
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/mitre
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