CVE-2023-6693
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.9 · CWE-121
4.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled. This could allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables allocated on the stack. Specifically, the `out_sg` variable could be used to read a part of process memory and send it to the wire, causing an information leak.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products we track (3)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580 ↗