CVE-2023-1544

Summary

CVECVE-2023-1544
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-11 15:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[PATCH v1] hw/pvrdma: Protect against buggy or malicious guest driver MISC lists.nongnu.org
2180364 – (CVE-2023-1544) CVE-2023-1544 QEMU: pvrdma: out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE-2023-1544 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160635 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm (ELSA-2023-12328)
  • 160713 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:kvm_utils2 (ELSA-2023-12358)
  • 756072 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2024:1103-1)
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