CVE-2018-16847

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Nov 2, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 11, 2018

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.0 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

Product	Versions
QEMU:[UNKNOWN]	n/aAffected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847
[oss-security] 20181102 CVE-2018-16847 QEMU: nvme: Out-of-bounds r/w buffer access in cmb operationsmailing-list
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html
USN-3826-1vendor-advisory
105866vdb-entry

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