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CVE-2018-16847 — An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emul

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 privil

CVSS
7.0 HIGH
EPSS
0.09% (top 74.50%)
CWE
CWE-787
Published
2018-11-02T22:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T10:32:54.125Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
[UNKNOWN]QEMU:n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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