CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5931

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 2.8.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References