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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 14:27:05 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liq3ea@...il.com>
Subject: CVE-2018-16847 QEMU: nvme: Out-of-bounds r/w buffer access in cmb
 operations

   Hello,

An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller 
emulation in QEMU.  It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme devices. A 
guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in 
DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.

Upstream patch:
---------------
   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00200.html

This issue was found and reported by Li Qiang. 'CVE-2018-16847' assigned by 
Red Hat Inc.

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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