CVE-2024-3567: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: from 8.1.0, before 8.2.3 (fixed in 8.2.3); version 9.0.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2024-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.