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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5931: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5931: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/27/2017
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

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