medium6.0
CVE-2023-1544
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | through 7.2.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 37 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/