CVE-2024-6505 is a heap overflow vulnerability in the virtio-net device of QEMU, affecting QEMU and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A privileged guest user can manipulate the RSS feature's indirections_table, leading to an index out-of-bounds error and potentially crashing the QEMU process on the host. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium) due to its high privileges required and high availability impact, but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is currently no public exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:advanced_virtualization:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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