Vulnerability CVE-2024-6505


Published: 2024-07-05

Description:
A flaw was found in the virtio-net device in QEMU. When enabling the RSS feature on the virtio-net network card, the indirections_table data within RSS becomes controllable. Setting excessively large values may cause an index out-of-bounds issue, potentially resulting in heap overflow access. This flaw allows a privileged user in the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6505
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295760

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