CVE-2023-3019

medium

Published 2024-04-30 · Modified 2024-01-10

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

A DMA reentrancy issue leading to a use-after-free error was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code in QEMU. This issue could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() CVSS v3: 6.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H) Errata / fixed releases ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8virt-devel:rhel-8090020231206155326.a75119d5RHSA-2024:01352024-01-10T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8virt:rhel-8090020231206155326.a75119d5RHSA-2024:01352024-01-10T00:00:00Z…

Description

QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest()

CVSS v3: 6.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`virt-devel:rhel-8090020231206155326.a75119d5`	RHSA-2024:0135	2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`virt:rhel-8090020231206155326.a75119d5`	RHSA-2024:0135	2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support	`virt-devel:rhel-8060020231128234847.ad008a3a`	RHSA-2024:0404	2024-01-25T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support	`virt:rhel-8060020231128234847.ad008a3a`	RHSA-2024:0404	2024-01-25T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	`virt-devel:rhel-8080020240116113044.63b34585`	RHSA-2024:0569	2024-01-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	`virt:rhel-8080020240116113044.63b34585`	RHSA-2024:0569	2024-01-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`qemu-kvm-17:8.2.0-11.el9_4`	RHSA-2024:2135	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`qemu-kvm`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`qemu-kvm`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`qemu-kvm-ma`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization	`virt:av/qemu-kvm`	Will not fix

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2024:0135 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

yum update -y virt-devel:rhel
# or:
dnf upgrade -y virt-devel:rhel

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Red Hat Mixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9.0	Affected	—
9	Fixed	—
8.0	Affected	—
8	Fixed	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`qemu-img-8.2.0-11.el9_4.aarch64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:8.2.0+ds-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:8.2.0+ds-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:8.2.0+ds-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u4`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u4`

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endExcluding":"8.2.0"}`	`8.2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.