CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16847
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 3.0.0)
• qemu qemu 3.1.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory