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CVE-2024-6505

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2024-07-05 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Qemu QemuRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-125

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