CVE-2023-1544

NameCVE-2023-1544
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1034179

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)buster1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8vulnerable
buster (security)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10vulnerable
bullseye (security), bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie1:8.1.0+ds-6fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusource(unstable)1:8.0.2+dfsg-11034179

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)

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