CVE-2017-14167

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-14167
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-08 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-16 20:21:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
QEMU Out of Bounds Read and Write Memory Access CVE-2017-14167 Local Integer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3575-1: QEMU vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3991-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2017-14167 Qemu: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading guest kernel image MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] multiboot: validate multiboot header address values MLIST lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900050 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
  • 902819 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (3567)
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