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CVE-2023-1544

Publication date 23 March 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu3.23.10.2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:7.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.4
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2023-10-12]
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.16
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.28
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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