Denial of service in QEMU nvme

1) NULL pointer dereference

EUVDB-ID: #VU85829

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 4.8 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40360

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the nvme_directive_receive() function in hw/nvme/ctrl.c. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

QEMU: All versions

External links

http://gitlab.com/birkelund/qemu/-/commit/6c8f8456cb0b239812dee5211881426496da7b98
http://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1815
http://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/security.html
http://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0004/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to trick the victim to open a a specially crafted file.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.