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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-8068540
  • published 22 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 20 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown

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

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    Low
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None