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CVE-2018-16847 — HIGH severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2018-16847

7.8

HIGHCVSS v3

Published

November 2, 2018

CVSS v2

4.6 MEDIUM

Affected

5 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

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.

qemu-project/qemu

GitLabQEMU main repository: Please see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 3.0.0, = 3.1.0NVD

qemu/qemu

GitHubOfficial QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

<= 3.0.0, = 3.1.0NVD

More on this CVE

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bonzini/qemu

GitHubMy QEMU tree

<= 3.0.0, = 3.1.0NVD

birkelund/qemu

<= 3.0.0, = 3.1.0NVD

thuth/qemu

GitLabQEMU mirror for GitLab CI: Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 3.0.0, = 3.1.0NVD