PT-2018-13770

CVE-2018-16847

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Published

2018-11-02

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Updated

2020-05-14

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.8
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)
Description A heap buffer out-of-bounds read/write access issue was discovered in the NVM Express Controller emulation of QEMU, specifically in the nvme cmb ops routines of the nvme device. This issue could allow a guest user or process to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS), or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU process.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2018-2870
OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4004-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4135-1
SUSE-SU-2018:3927-1
SUSE-SU-2018:4086-1
SUSE-SU-2018_4086-1
SUSE-SU-2018:4185-1
USN-3826-1
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