CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2630

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-07-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-121

Description

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.9 built with the Network Block Device (NBD) client support. The flaw could occur while processing server's response to a 'NBD_OPT_LIST' request. A malicious NBD server could use this issue to crash a remote NBD client resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on client host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (< 2.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References