An integer overflow issue was found in the NE200 NIC emulation. It could occur while receiving packets from the network, if the size value was greater than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in DoS scenario.
Find out more about CVE-2018-10839 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 6.5 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity Impact | Low |
Availability Impact | High |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm | Affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-ma | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Not affected |