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CVE-2024-3446

QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.2

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 4, 2024

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or allow arbitrary code execution within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

Statement

This CVE is rated as having a Moderate security impact on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For additional details, refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211#c3.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-415 · Double Free