A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the connection again, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference issue. This could allow a remote unauthenticated client to cause a denial of service.
| Version | Score | Severity | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 | High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Product | Vendor | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux | Fedora | 4.5.0.1.3 |
| Fedora | Fedora | <= * |
| Fedora | Fedora | 4.5.0.1.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Red Hat | 4.4.0.3.0 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat | <= 5.15.* |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Red Hat | <= 5.18.* |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat | <= 6.0.4 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) | Red Hat | 4.5.0.0.0 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization | Red Hat | 7.3.6.870 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat | <= 5.17.* |
| qemu | n/a | <= 5.10.* |