CVE-2018-7550
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-01 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:31
Severity ?
Summary
The load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in Quick Emulator (aka QEMU) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103181Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1369Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2462Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549798Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-f49v-45qp-cv53
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg06890.htmlMailing List, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3649-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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