Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of…

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-190 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-190 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• [qemu-devel] 20170110 [PULL 03/41] virtio-crypto: fix possible integer and heap overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 96141 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-201702-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08aaff811fb194950f79711d2afe5a892ae03a4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170207 Re: CVE request Qemu: virtio: integer overflow in handling virtio-crypto requests (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 15:18 UTC.