vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-7550: Security patch for qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1073)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 1, 2018
Added
Sep 7, 2018
Modified
Aug 25, 2020

Description

The load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in Quick Emulator (aka QEMU) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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