CVE-2024-8612 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2024-8612

Qemu-kvm: information leak in virtio devices

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in QEMU, in the virtio-scsi, virtio-blk, and virtio-crypto devices. The size for virtqueue_push as set in virtio_scsi_complete_req / virtio_blk_req_complete / virito_crypto_req_complete could be larger than the true size of the data which has been sent to guest. Once virtqueue_push() finally calls dma_memory_unmap to ummap the in_iov, it may call the address_space_write function to write back the data. Some uninitialized data may exist in the bounce.buffer, leading to an information leak.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Xiao Lei (FSL team), Yiming Tao (FSL team), and Yongkang Jia (FSL team) for reporting this issue.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Vulnerable Versions:
637b0aa139565cb82a7b9269e62214f87082635c

Timeline

Official Publish: September 20th, 2024
Last Modified: November 8th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)