CVE-2018-11806
Public on 2018-06-13
Modified on 2018-09-15
Description
A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the way SLiRP networking back-end in QEMU processes fragmented packets. It could occur while reassembling the fragmented datagrams of an incoming packet. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially leverage it to execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | qemu-kvm | 2018-09-05 | ALAS-2018-1073 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | qemu-kvm | 2018-09-12 | ALAS2-2018-1073 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |