CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-16847

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.

4.6 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1 Mailing List Patch
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html Mailing List Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/ Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:3.1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:3.1.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-11-02 10:29

Updated : 2020-05-14 03:01

NVD link : CVE-2018-16847

Mitre link : CVE-2018-16847

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-787