CVE-2018-17958
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 18.10 | Affected | — |
| 18.04 | Affected | — |
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:3.1+dfsg-1 |
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Not affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"3.0.1"} | |
| redhat | virtualization | 4.0 | |
| redhat | virtualization_manager | 4.3 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105556
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2553
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00023.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03269.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/76
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4454
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17958.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17958
CWEs
CWE-190
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.