Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting qemu package, versions <1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-QEMU-18321862
  • published27 Jul 2026
  • disclosed23 Mar 2023

Introduced: 23 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-1544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest qemu to version 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u3 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to allocate and initialize a huge number of page tables to be used as a ring of descriptors for CQ and async events, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and crash of QEMU.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1