Medium severity · published Jan 2, 2024
CVE-2023-6693
A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU
5.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled. This could allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables allocated on the stack. Specifically, the `out_sg` variable could be used to read a part of process memory and send it to the wire, causing an information leak.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
39 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
before 8.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6693
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6693
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2962
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4492
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6693
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OYGUN5HVOXESW7MSNM44E4AE2VNXQB6Y/
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