CVE-2018-16847
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.09%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-16847
To remediate CVE-2018-16847, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/qemu—upgrade to 1:3.1+dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-16847 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:3.1+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |