CVE-2018-16847

CVSS V2 Medium 4.6 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-16847
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-11-02T22:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-05-14T15:01:50
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-125 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.0.0
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:3.1.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:3.1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/ Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16847
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16847
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:32:19 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 14:04:11 2018-11-02T22:29Z 2018-11-02T22:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 14:04:11 2020-05-14T15:01:50 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 14:04:12 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated