Out-of-bounds Read Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007016
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for qemu-project/qemu.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.

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