Security Advisory

CVE-2023-3301

5.6
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.
Published Date September 13, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory