Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-8068540
  • published22 Sept 2024
  • disclosed20 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8612  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource in physmem.c, used by the virtio-scsi, virtio-blk, and virtio-crypto devices. An attacker can expose uninitialized memory in bounce.buffer by exploiting the discrepancy between the set size and the actual data size.

CVSS Scores

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