CVE-2024-3567 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

55%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

60%

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the update_sctp_checksum() function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c when trying to calculate the checksum of a short-sized fragmented packet. This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash QEMU and cause a denial of service condition.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 10 months ago

2024-04-10 15:16:00

Last updated 3 months ago

2024-11-21 09:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3567

RHBZ#2274339

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2273

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3567

Vendor Advisory

RHBZ#2274339

Issue Tracking

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2273

Exploit, Issue Tracking

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240822-0007/

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