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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16847: qemu security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16847: qemu security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2018
Created
09/01/2020
Added
08/31/2020
Modified
08/31/2020

Description

An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.

Solution(s)

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