VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2024-8354

This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.29%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the usb_ep_get() function in hw/net/core.c when trying to get the USB endpoint from a USB device. This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition.

CVSS 3.1: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.29% probability · 21th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-617
Affected: qemu/qemu · redhat/enterprise linux
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8354Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313497Issue Tracking
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241011-0008/

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.