QEMU CVE-2018-16847 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	105866
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:	CVE-2018-16847
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Nov 01 2018 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 01 2018 12:00AM
Credit:	Li Qiang
Vulnerable:	Redhat OpenStack Platform 9.0 Redhat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) Redhat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) Redhat OpenStack Platform 12 Redhat OpenStack Platform 10 Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 QEMU QEMU 0
Not Vulnerable:

QEMU CVE-2018-16847 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

QEMU is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to crash the QEMU process, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

QEMU CVE-2018-16847 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

QEMU CVE-2018-16847 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

QEMU CVE-2018-16847 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] nvme: fix oob access issue(CVE-2018-16847) (gnu.org)
  
• QEMU Homepage (QEMU)
  
• Bug 1644052 - (CVE-2018-16847) CVE-2018-16847 QEMU: nvme: Out-of-bounds r/w buf (Redhat)
  
• CVE-2018-16847 (Redhat)