REDHAT-BUG-2302487: Medium severity qemu vulnerability

Published Aug 2, 2024
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Updated

A flaw was discovered in the qemu code for temporarily exposing an NBD server (used for storage migration and other tasks), where qemu can crash if a client still has a socket open at the time the server is taken offline. Even when qemu is set up to only accept clients with proper TLS credentials, an attacker without the TLS credentials can exploit the flaw by connecting a second socket while a storage migration is ongoing through the intended socket, where the attacker then stalls the NBD handshake to not reach the point of the TLS negotiation, then waiting for the server to go offline. When the NBD server is stopped, closing the attacker's socket can cause qemu to crash, forming a denial of service attack.

Affected Software

1 affected component
qemu

Event History

Aug 2, 2024
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·11:35 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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