Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting qemu-block-ssh package, versions <2.11.2-9.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
5.58% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-QEMUBLOCKSSH-2762108
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2018

Introduced: 10 Sep 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 qemu-block-ssh to version 2.11.2-9.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-block-ssh package and not the qemu-block-ssh package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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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