CVE-2024-6505 Information

Description

A 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.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6505 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295760