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.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/3xxx/CVE-2023-3301.json",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-617"
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"cna_assigner": "redhat"
}