🛡️ CVE-2024-6505 on Debian — qemu

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-6505 as tracked by Debian, for the package qemu. The fix is available in version 1:9.0.2+ds-3; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6505 is classified as CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read. The code reads past the limits of a buffer, exposing adjacent memory contents or crashing the process.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6505 is recorded against 1 package.

  • qemu (fixed in 1:9.0.2+ds-3)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 July 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-6505 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-07-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qemu — 1:9.0.2+ds-3

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