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CVE-2018-7550

Public on 2018-03-01
Modified on 2018-09-15
Description

Quick Emulator (QEMU), compiled with the PC System Emulator with multiboot feature support, is vulnerable to an OOB r/w memory access issue. The issue could occur while loading a kernel image during the guest boot, if mh_load_end_addr address is greater than the mh_bss_end_addr address. A user or process could use this flaw to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution on a host.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 qemu-kvm 2018-09-05 19:33 ALAS-2018-1073
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu-kvm 2018-09-12 22:19 ALAS2-2018-1073

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P