CVE-2024-6505

NameCVE-2024-6505
DescriptionA flaw was found in the virtio-net device in QEMU. When enabling the RSS feature on the virtio-net network card, the indirections_table data within RSS becomes controllable. Setting excessively large values may cause an index out-of-bounds issue, potentially resulting in heap overflow access. This flaw allows a privileged user in the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host.
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Debian Bugs1075919

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3vulnerable
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7vulnerable
sid, trixie1:9.1.0+ds-8fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusource(unstable)1:9.0.2+ds-31075919

Notes

[bookworm] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295760

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