CVE-2017-2630

high

Description

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.9 built with the Network Block Device (NBD) client support. The flaw could occur while processing server's response to a 'NBD_OPT_LIST' request. A malicious NBD server could use this issue to crash a remote NBD client resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on client host with privileges of the QEMU process.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01246.html

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/2563c9c6b8670400c48e562034b321a7cf3d9a85

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2630

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422415

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96265

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-27

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High