CVE-2023-3354
Improper i/o watch removal in tls handshake can lead to remote unauthenticated denial of service
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
qemu
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
Fedora · Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
All versions: unaffected
References (4)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3354 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2216478 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MURWGXDIF2WTDXV36T6HFJDBL632AO7R/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00012.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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