PT-2018-13770 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Li Qiang · Published 2018-11-02 · Updated 2020-05-14 · CVE-2018-16847

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV: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.

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2870

CVE-2018-16847

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4004-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4135-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3927-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4086-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4185-1

SUSE-SU-2018_4086-1

USN-3826-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 93

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16847 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00756 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17963 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00721 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11806 · Security Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12617 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16847 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16847 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00704 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-4520.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4086-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16847 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16847 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3826-1 · Vendor Advisory