| Name | CVE-2024-4693 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release and use of the irqfd for vector 0 during the boot process leads to a guest triggerable crash via vhost_net_stop(). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.1.1+ds-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | bookworm | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:8.2.3+ds-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bullseye] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[buster] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2321
Introduced by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/f9a09ca3ea69d108d828b7c82f1bd61b2df6fc96 (v8.0.0-rc0)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/fcbb086ae590e910614fe5b8bf76e264f71ef304 (v8.2.3)
[stretch] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[jessie] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)