High severity · published Apr 9, 2024
CVE-2024-3446
Qemu: virtio: dma reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability
8.2
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3446
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3446
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6964
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3446
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211
patchew.org
https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240409105537.18308-1-philmd@linaro.org/
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0007/
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