CVE-2024-8354 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

47%

Complexity

10%

Confidentiality

60%

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the usb_ep_get() function in hw/net/core.c when trying to get the USB endpoint from a USB device. This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

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 8 months ago

2024-09-19 11:15:00

Last updated 6 months ago

2024-11-21 09:53:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 (7)

7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

QEMU

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Advanced Virtualization Edition

8.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8354

RHBZ#2313497

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8354

Vendor Advisory

RHBZ#2313497

Issue Tracking

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241011-0008/

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