CVE-2018-16847

Published Nov 2, 2018

Last updated 4 days ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
7
Impact score
5.3
Exploitability score
1.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.6
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-125

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

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