CVE-2024-8612 LOW

CVE-2024-8612: Qemu-kvm: information leak in virtio devices

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published September 20, 2024
Last update November 8, 2025

CVSS base score

3.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in QEMU, in the virtio-scsi, virtio-blk, and virtio-crypto devices. The size for virtqueue_push as set in virtio_scsi_complete_req / virtio_blk_req_complete / virito_crypto_req_complete could be larger than the true size of the data which has been sent to guest. Once virtqueue_push() finally calls dma_memory_unmap to ummap the in_iov, it may call the address_space_write function to write back the data. Some uninitialized data may exist in the bounce.buffer, leading to an information leak.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 20, 2024 CVE published
November 8, 2025 Record updated