Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,3.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006983
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-10839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 3.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

CVSS Scores

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