Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting qemu-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
5.58% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUKVM-1379991
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Jun 2018

Introduced: 22 Jun 2018

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 qemu-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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 Scores

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