CVE-2024-3446

Public on 2024-04-09
Modified on 2024-08-09
Description
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.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.2
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu 2024-06-19 ALAS2-2024-2572 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 qemu-kvm No Fix Planned

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H