VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-1544

CVSS score6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-03-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to allocate and initialize a huge number of page tables to be used as a ring of descriptors for CQ and async events, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and crash of QEMU.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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