CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-1544

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2023-03-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-03-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-770

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to allocate and initialize a huge number of page tables to be used as a ring of descriptors for CQ and async events, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and crash of QEMU.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 7.2.0) • fedoraproject fedora 37

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References