CVE-2023-3301
Moderate
Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
September 13, 2023
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
236 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-3301
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A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215784
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/3xxx/CVE-2023-3301.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3301
- https://packages.fedoraproject.org/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/