CVE-2023-1544

medium

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-03-23

Updated: 2024-04-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium