Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory corruption via nvme_cmb_ops
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, QEMU, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu, WindRiver Linux.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server, denial of service on service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 05/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can generate a memory
corruption via nvme_cmb_ops() of QEMU, in order to trigger a
denial of service, and possibly to run code on the host system.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-corruption-via-nvme-cmb-ops-27669