CVE-2018-16847
Published: 02 November 2018
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.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.8)
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
|
Patches: Other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5e3c0220d7e4f0361c4d36c697a8842f2b583402 |
||
|
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Not vulnerable
(debian: support for Controller Memory Buffers added later)
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Does not exist
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|
|
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | looks like it was introduced by: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=a896f7f26a1a0417322463439825073c1a917e41 |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16847
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3826-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian