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CVE-2023-1544

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

2023-03-23T20:15:14.497

Last Modified

2025-11-03T20:15:59.780

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.0 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-125
Type: Primary
CWE-770

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	qemu	qemu	≤ 7.2.0	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	37	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/ ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)