Out-of-bounds Read Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-524179
- published 2 Aug 2017
- disclosed 2 Aug 2017
Introduced: 2 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-11334 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11334
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3925
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg03775.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/17/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471638
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3369
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3466
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3470
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3471
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3472
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3473
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3474
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99895
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/