First published: Tue May 22 2018(Updated: )
An integer overflow issue was found in the NE200 NIC emulation. It could occur while receiving packets from the network, if the size value was greater than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in DoS scenario.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
redhat/qemu-kvm | <2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5 | 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5 |
debian/qemu | <=1:2.8+dfsg-1<=1:2.12+dfsg-3 | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
QEMU qemu | <=3.0.0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =16.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =18.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =18.10 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
debian/qemu | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 1:9.0.2+ds-2 1:9.1.0+ds-3 |
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The vulnerability ID for this issue is CVE-2018-10839.
The severity of CVE-2018-10839 is medium.
The affected software for CVE-2018-10839 includes qemu-kvm version 2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5, qemu versions 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 to 1:2.12+dfsg-3, and various versions of qemu on Ubuntu and Debian systems.
The impact of CVE-2018-10839 is a stack buffer overflow issue that could be exploited by a user inside the guest to crash the QEMU process.
To fix CVE-2018-10839, you should update qemu to a fixed version provided by the software vendor or apply the appropriate patches.