Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-QEMU-605806
- published2 Dec 2018
- disclosed2 Nov 2018
Introduced: 2 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-16847 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Debian.
An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16847
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16847
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/