Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
14.19% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-QEMU-427561
  • published21 Jun 2018
  • disclosed21 Jun 2018

Introduced: 21 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 qemu to version 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u6 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

qmp_guest_file_read in qga/commands-posix.c and qga/commands-win32.c in qemu-ga (aka QEMU Guest Agent) in QEMU 2.12.50 has an integer overflow causing a g_malloc0() call to trigger a segmentation fault when trying to allocate a large memory chunk. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending a crafted QMP command (including guest-file-read with a large count value) to the agent via the listening socket.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1