CVE-2025-11234
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Publication date: 2025-10-03

Last updated on: 2026-03-24

Assigner: Red Hat, Inc.

Description
A flaw was found in QEMU. If the QIOChannelWebsock object is freed while it is waiting to complete a handshake, a GSource is leaked. This can lead to the callback firing later on and triggering a use-after-free in the use of the channel. This can be abused by a malicious client with network access to the VNC WebSocket port to cause a denial of service during the WebSocket handshake prior to the VNC client authentication.
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Published
2025-10-03
Last Modified
2026-03-24
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2026-05-07
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2025-10-03
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-05
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Showing 1 associated CPE
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qemu qemu *
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CWE ID Description
CWE-416 The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?

This vulnerability is a flaw in QEMU where if the QIOChannelWebsock object is freed while waiting to complete a WebSocket handshake, a GSource is leaked. This can cause a callback to fire later, triggering a use-after-free error in the channel. A malicious client with network access to the VNC WebSocket port can exploit this to cause a denial of service during the handshake before VNC client authentication.


How can this vulnerability impact me? :

The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious client to cause a denial of service (DoS) on the affected system by triggering a use-after-free during the WebSocket handshake on the VNC WebSocket port. This can disrupt availability of the VNC service.


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