CVE-2018-10839
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CVE-2018-10839 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. EPSS estimates a 3.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
Metrics
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | <= 3.0.0 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 14.04 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 16.04 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 18.04 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 18.10 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 8.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 9.0 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10839Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03273.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4338Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10839Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03273.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4338Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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