CVE-2024-4693 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-4693: Qemu-kvm: virtio-pci: improper release of configure vector leads to guest triggerable crash

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Weakness CWE-672
Published May 10, 2024
Last update November 8, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.5/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 10, 2024 CVE published
November 8, 2025 Record updated