CVE-2018-16847

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.

• CWE-787
• CWE-125
• CWE-787

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105866Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16847Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Nov 2, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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