CVE-2024-8354

Publication date 19 September 2024

Last updated 29 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the usb_ep_get() function in hw/net/core.c when trying to get the USB endpoint from a USB device. This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2025-05-26]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

Notes

mdeslaur

While this was originally marked as fixed in USN-7744-1, the 3c3c233677 commit was actually for a similar bug in hcd-ohci. This CVE is for the bug in hcd-uhci. A proposed fix is: https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: 3c3c233 Upstream: d0af3cd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7744-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
11 September 2025