What is GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3?

GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3 cover?

GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2024-4693. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3?

GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3MediumCVSS 5.5

A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 14, 2024

Last Modified

November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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.

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4693
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4693
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279965
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240828-0007
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c58x-2x8h-gwq3