CVE-2018-16847

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787 CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	QEMU:	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Nov 2, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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