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CVE-2017-5931

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Score
8.8 high
Published
2017-03-27
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
emulators/qemu-cheriqemu-cheri0.d20260108unaddressedbrooks@FreeBSD.org

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>qemu-cheri</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick
	Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of
	service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the
	host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based
	buffer overflow.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2017-5931</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5931</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2017-03-27</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>