CVE-2023-1544

Description

A 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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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