A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU resulting in a denial of service condition or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

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QEMU: virtio-net: heap use-after-free in virtio_net_receive_rcu

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to numbuffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting i...