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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2406-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-1544: pvrdma: out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read() (bsc#1209554).
    - CVE-2025-11234: qemu-kvm: use-after-free in websocket handshake code can lead to denial of service     (bsc#1250984).
    - CVE-2026-2243: incorrect bounds check leads to heap out-of-bounds read and a 12-byte information leak     when processing       specially crafted VMDK files (bsc#1258509).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0043-1 advisory.

    Security issues fixed:

    - CVE-2023-1544: out-of-bounds read in VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device operations can be exploited     through a malicious       guest driver to crash the QEMU process on the host (bsc#1209554).
    - CVE-2024-6505: heap-based buffer overflow in the virtio-net device operations can be exploited by a     malicious       privileged user to crash the QEMU process on the host (bsc#1227397).
    - CVE-2025-12464: stack-based buffer overflow in the e1000 network device operations can be exploited by a     malicious       guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host (bsc#1253002).

    Other updates and bugfixes:

    - [openSUSE][RPM] spec: require qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci for x86 too.
    - [openSUSE][RPM} spec: delete old specfile constructs.
    - block/curl: fix curl internal handles handling (bsc#1252768).
    - [openSUSE][RPM]: really fix *-virtio-gpu-pci dependency on ARM (bsc#1254286).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:4523-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-1544: pvrdma: Fixed out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read() (bsc#1209554)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0869 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-5088:
    A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be     targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for     example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor     to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.

    CVE-2023-40360:
    A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device     backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this     time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.

    CVE-2023-3180:
    QEMU through 8.0.4 accesses a NULL pointer in nvme_directive_receive in hw/nvme/ctrl.c because there is no     check for whether an endurance group is configured before checking whether Flexible Data Placement is     enabled.

    CVE-2023-42467:
    A heap out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the virtual nvme device in QEMU. The QEMU process does     not validate an offset provided by the guest before computing a host heap pointer, which is used for     copying data back to the guest. Arbitrary heap memory relative to an allocated buffer can be disclosed.

    CVE-2023-3354:
    A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks     whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous     connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the     connection again, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference issue. This could allow a remote unauthenticated     client to cause a denial of service.

    CVE-2023-3301:
    A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit     condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the     `inflate_buffer` function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard     to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.

    CVE-2023-4135:
    A flaw was found in the QEMU virtual crypto device while handling data encryption/decryption requests in     virtio_crypto_handle_sym_req. There is no check for the value of `src_len` and `dst_len` in     virtio_crypto_sym_op_helper, potentially leading to a heap buffer overflow when the two values differ.

    CVE-2023-3255:
    QEMU through 8.0.0 could trigger a division by zero in scsi_disk_reset in hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c because     scsi_disk_emulate_mode_select does not prevent s->qdev.blocksize from being 256. This stops QEMU and the     guest immediately.

    CVE-2021-3750:
    A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU. EHCI does not verify if the     Buffer Pointer overlaps with its MMIO region when it transfers the USB packets. Crafted content may be     written to the controller/'s registers and trigger undesirable actions (such as reset) while the device is     still transferring packets. This can ultimately lead to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could     use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or     potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host. This flaw affects     QEMU versions before 7.0.0.

    CVE-2021-3929:
    A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU. This CVE is     similar to CVE-2021-3750 and, just like it, when the reentrancy write triggers the reset function     nvme_ctrl_reset(), data structs will be freed leading to a use-after-free issue. A malicious guest could     use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition or,     potentially, executing arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

    CVE-2021-4158:
    A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU. A malicious, privileged user within     the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service     condition.

    CVE-2021-4206:
    A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. An integer overflow in the cursor_alloc()     function can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer     overflow. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host or     potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.

    CVE-2021-4207:
    A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. A double fetch of guest controlled values     `cursor->header.width` and `cursor->header.height` can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object     followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. A malicious privileged guest user could use this flaw     to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU     process.

    CVE-2022-0358:
    A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation. This flaw is     strictly related to CVE-2018-13405. A local guest user can create files in the directories shared by     virtio-fs with unintended group ownership in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and     is writable by a user who is not a member of the group. This could allow a malicious unprivileged user     inside the guest to gain access to resources accessible to the root group, potentially escalating their     privileges within the guest. A malicious local user in the host might also leverage this unexpected     executable file created by the guest to escalate their privileges on the host system.

    CVE-2022-2962:
    A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the Tulip device emulation in QEMU. When Tulip reads or writes to the     rx/tx descriptor or copies the rx/tx frame, it doesn/'t check whether the destination address is its own     MMIO address. This can cause the device to trigger MMIO handlers multiple times, possibly leading to a     stack or heap overflow. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host,     resulting in a denial of service condition.

    CVE-2022-3165:
    An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the     extended format. A malicious client could use this flaw to make QEMU unresponsive by sending a specially     crafted payload message, resulting in a denial of service.

    CVE-2022-35414:
    ** DISPUTED ** softmmu/physmem.c in QEMU through 7.0.0 can perform an uninitialized read on the     translate_fail path, leading to an io_readx or io_writex crash. NOTE: a third party states that the Non-     virtualization Use Case in the qemu.org reference applies here, i.e., Bugs affecting the non-     virtualization use case are not considered security bugs at this time.

    CVE-2022-3872:
    An off-by-one read/write issue was found in the SDHCI device of QEMU. It occurs when reading/writing the     Buffer Data Port Register in sdhci_read_dataport and sdhci_write_dataport, respectively, if data_count ==     block_size. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a     denial of service condition.

    CVE-2022-4144:
    An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. The qxl_phys2virt()     function does not check the size of the structure pointed to by the guest physical address, potentially     reading past the end of the bar space into adjacent pages. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to     crash the QEMU process on the host causing a denial of service condition.

    CVE-2023-1544:
    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.

    CVE-2023-6683:
    A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. The     qemu_clipboard_request() function can be reached before vnc_server_cut_text_caps() was called and had the     chance to initialize the clipboard peer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could allow a     malicious authenticated VNC client to crash QEMU and trigger a denial of service.

    CVE-2023-6693:
    A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing     TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and     VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled. This could allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables     allocated on the stack. Specifically, the `out_sg` variable could be used to read a part of process memory     and send it to the wire, causing an information leak.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-4144 advisory.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4144-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/               Santiago Ruano Rincn     April 30, 2025                                https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : qemu     Version        : 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u4     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-1544 CVE-2023-3019 CVE-2023-5088 CVE-2023-6693                      CVE-2024-3447     Debian Bug     : 1034179 1041102 1068821

    Multiple security issues were discovered in QEMU, a fast processor     emulator, which could result in denial of service or information leak.

    CVE-2023-1544

        Potential out-of-bounds read and crash via VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device.

    CVE-2023-3019

        Use-after-free error in the e1000e NIC emulation.

    CVE-2023-5088

        IDE guest I/O operation addressed to an arbitrary disk offset may         potentially allow to overwrite the VM's boot code.

    CVE-2023-6693

        Stack based buffer overflow in the virtio-net device emulation that may be         exploited to cause information leak.

    CVE-2024-3447

        Heap-based buffer overflow in SDHCI device emulation.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version     1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u4.

    We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

    For the detailed security status of qemu please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/qemu

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS     Attachment:
    signature.asc     Description: PGP signature

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of qemu installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-1544 advisory.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2023-1544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of qemu installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-1544 advisory.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2023-1544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-18 (QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below     for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1103-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-26327: Fixed buffer overflow via invalid SR/IOV NumVFs value (bsc#1220062).
    - CVE-2024-24474: Fixed integer overflow results in buffer overflow via SCSI command (bsc#1220134).
    - CVE-2023-6693: Fixed stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() (bsc#1218484).
    - CVE-2023-1544: Fixed out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read() (bsc#1209554).
    - CVE-2024-26328: Fixed invalid NumVFs value handled in NVME SR/IOV implementation (bsc#1220065).


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6567-1 advisory.

    Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A     privileged guest attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14394)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the TCG Accelerator. A local attacker could use this issue     to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and esclate     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-24165)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Intel HD audio device. A malicious guest attacker     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3611)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ATI VGA device. A malicious guest attacker could use     this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04     LTS. (CVE-2021-3638)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare paravirtual RDMA device. A malicious guest     attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-1544)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 9p passthrough filesystem. A malicious guest attacker     could possibly use this issue to open special files and escape the exported 9p tree. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2861)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual crypto device. A malicious guest attacker     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3180)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote authenticated attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3255)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled net device hot-unplugging. A malicious guest attacker     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3301)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3354)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this     issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10.
    (CVE-2023-40360)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this     issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4135)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this     issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and     Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-42467)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain disk offsets. A malicious guest attacker could     possibly use this issue to gain control of the host in certain nested virtualization scenarios.
    (CVE-2023-5088)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12358 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-1544 is not applicable to Oracle QEMU 6.1.1 (Karl Heubaum) [Orabug: 35305727] {CVE-2023-1544}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of QEMU installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows:
   
  - A DMA reentrancy issue leading to a use-after-free error was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code in QEMU.     This issue could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2023-3019)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-1544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12328 advisory.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2023-1544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
321752	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2026:2406-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
282441	SUSE SLES15: qemu / qemu-SLOF / qemu-accel-tcg-x86 / qemu-arm / qemu-audio-alsa / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:0043-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
280091	SUSE SLES12: qemu / qemu-arm / qemu-audio-alsa / qemu-audio-oss / qemu-audio-pa / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:4523-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
238947	TencentOS Server 4: qemu (TSSA-2024:0869)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	Local	high
235039	Debian dla-4144 : qemu - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
234308	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: qemu (CVE-2023-1544)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
234301	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: qemu (CVE-2023-1544)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
205306	GLSA-202408-18 : QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
193075	SUSE SLED15: qemu / qemu-SLOF / qemu-accel-qtest / qemu-accel-tcg-x86 / qemu-arm / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1103-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
187683	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-6567-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
180908	Oracle Linux 8 : virt:kvm_utils2 (ELSA-2023-12358)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
179667	QEMU < 7.2.4 / < 8.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilites	Nessus	Windows	Local	medium
175919	Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2023-12328)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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