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.
Published 2023-03-23 20:15:14
Updated 2024-04-19 14:15:08
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Products affected by CVE-2023-1544

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-1544

0.05%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 11 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2023-1544

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
6.3
MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
1.8
4.0
NIST
6.0
MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
1.5
4.0
Fedora Project 2024-04-19

CWE ids for CVE-2023-1544

  • The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
    Assigned by: patrick@puiterwijk.org (Secondary)
  • The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2023-1544

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