| Name | CVE-2023-1544 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1034179 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1:8.1.0+ds-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:8.0.2+dfsg-1 | | | 1034179 |
Notes
[bookworm] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/31c4b6fb0293e359f9ef8a61892667e76eea4c99 (v8.0.0-rc0)