CVE-2018-10839 MEDIUM

CVE-2018-10839

Vendor The Qemu Project
Product Qemu-kvm
Weakness CWE-121
Published October 16, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024
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CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 16, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated