CVE-2018-16847 — Vulnetix

CVE-2018-16847 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.09% · 25.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.09%

25.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	qemu	0, 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3, 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu5

Exploit Intelligence

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847 (circl)
[oss-security] 20181102 CVE-2018-16847 QEMU: nvme: Out-of-bounds r/w buffer access in cmb operations (circl)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html (circl)
USN-3826-1 (circl)
105866 (circl)

Timeline

Nov 1, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16847 third-party-advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3826-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16847 third-party-advisory

Open in Interactive Console →