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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.0

CVE-2023-3019 json

Qemu: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest()

published 2023-07-24 3 y ago modified 2026-11-07 45 h ago also EUVD-2023-43711

cvss
6.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A DMA reentrancy issue leading to a use-after-free error was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code in QEMU. This issue could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 8090020231206155326.a75119d5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support 8060020231128234847.ad008a3a
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support 8080020240116113044.63b34585
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 V2.17.1
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 V2.17.1
  • qemu Debian 12 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u4
  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13 1:8.2.0+ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3019

  • qemu Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.30
  • qemu Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.24
  • qemu Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.47+esm4
  • qemu Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm3
  • qemu Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.42+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3019

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • qemu-kvm RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-img RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-core RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-tools RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-pr-helper RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-common RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-guest-agent RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-audio-pa RHEL 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:2135RHSA-2024:0404RHSA-2024:0569RHSA-2024:0135

  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP5, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 +2 more 7.1.0-150500.49.15.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +7 more 6.2.0-150400.37.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1438-2SUSE-SU-2024:1438-1SUSE-SU-2024:1394-1

  • qemu-kvm AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-img AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-core AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-tools AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-pr-helper AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-common AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-guest-agent AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4
  • qemu-kvm-audio-pa AlmaLinux 9 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:2135

  • hivex Rocky Linux 8 1.3.18-23.module+el8.10.0+1590+a67ab969
  • hivex Rocky Linux 8 1.3.18-23.module+el8.10.0+1835+43f01cbb
  • netcf Rocky Linux 8 0.2.8-12.module+el8.10.0+1590+a67ab969
  • netcf Rocky Linux 8 0.2.8-12.module+el8.10.0+1835+43f01cbb
  • swtpm Rocky Linux 8 0.7.0-4.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.10.0+1590+a67ab969
  • swtpm Rocky Linux 8 0.7.0-4.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.10.0+1835+43f01cbb
  • libnbd Rocky Linux 8 1.6.0-5.module+el8.10.0+1590+a67ab969
  • libnbd Rocky Linux 8 1.6.0-5.module+el8.10.0+1835+43f01cbb

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:0135RLSA-2024:2135

  • qemu CBL-Mariner 2.0 6.2.0-23

azure linux advisories AZL-35595

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-3019 updated cvss 6.0

QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-img-ma, qemu-kvm-ma, qemu-kvm-tools, +5 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kiwi, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, +9 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, libvirt 8.0.0-22.module+el8.9.0+19544+b3045133, seabios 1.16.0-4.module+el8.9.0+19570+14a90618, +38 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0135
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, SLOF 20210217-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, libiscsi 1.18.0-8.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, +38 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0404
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.8) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, SLOF 20210217-2.module+el8.8.0+20737+daad9f3b, seabios 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+19627+2d14cb21, +38 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0569
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, nbdkit 1.24.0-5.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23, libvirt 8.0.0-22.module+el8.9.0+19544+b3045133, +104 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0135
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) qemu-img 8.2.0-11.el9_4, qemu-kvm 8.2.0-11.el9_4, qemu-kvm-core 8.2.0-11.el9_4, qemu-kvm-tools 8.2.0-11.el9_4, qemu-pr-helper 8.2.0-11.el9_4, qemu-kvm-common 8.2.0-11.el9_4, +13 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2135
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, nbdkit 1.24.0-4.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, SLOF 20210217-1.module+el8.6.0+14480+c0a3aa0f, +104 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0404
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8) libnbd 1.6.0-5.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, netcf 0.2.8-12.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, hivex 1.3.18-23.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, nbdfuse 1.6.0-5.module+el8.8.0+16781+9f4724c2, nbdkit 1.24.0-5.module+el8.8.0+17308+05924798, SLOF 20210217-2.module+el8.8.0+20737+daad9f3b, +104 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0569

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-134-16 updated cvss 6.0

Siemens Ruggedcom Rox

  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 < 2.17.1
    +5 more products
    Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 < 2.17.1 Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 < 2.17.1
    affected: fixed in V2.17.1 support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536
  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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