Out-of-bounds read in QEMU - CVE-2017-11334
Published: May 10, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12552
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11334
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an adjacent authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area.
The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area.
Affected software
QEMU
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat OpenStack
SUSE Linux
qemu-kvm-rhev (Red Hat package)
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat OpenStack
SUSE Linux
qemu-kvm-rhev (Red Hat package)
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11334
Install update from vendor's website.
qemu-kvm-rhev (Red Hat package) - update to 2.9.0-16.el7_4.11