Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions <2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1522893
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Sept 2018

Introduced: 26 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 qemu-guest-agent to version 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2892.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.