CVE-2024-6505: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.