VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-16847

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.54%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-11-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references