CVE-2024-6505

Publication date 5 July 2024

Last updated 15 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1:9.0.2+ds-4ubuntu2
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1:9.0.2+ds-4ubuntu2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.10
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.27
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: f1595ce

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7744-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
11 September 2025