CVE-2018-16847

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedNov 2, 2018
First seenNov 2, 2018

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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 3.0.0, 3.1.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10—

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