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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3354

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.

Products
qemu
Affected versions
1:7.2+dfsg-7, 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u1, 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u2~bpo11+1
Fixed versions
1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u2, 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2023-3354
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 15:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3354

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Jul 2023, 17:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3354

qemu

Fixed versions: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u2

qemu

Fixed versions: 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1

qemu

Fixed versions: 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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