Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 14, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-4693

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.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0007/nvd

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