CVE-2023-1544

Published Mar 23, 2023

Last updated 7 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
patrick@puiterwijk.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.3
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-770
patrick@puiterwijk.org
CWE-125

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