CVE-2018-18438

Summary

CVECVE-2018-18438
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-19 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-04 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionQemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu - All All All
Application Qemu Qemu - All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 12 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 13 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 13.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 10 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 12 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 13.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] chardev: Let IOReadHandler use unsigned ty MLIST lists.gnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - CVE-2018-18438 Qemu: Integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read() allows memory corruption MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] chardev: Convert IO handlers to use unsign MLIST lists.gnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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