CVE-2017-5931

Qemu: virtio: integer overflow in handling virtio-crypto requests

Published Mar 27, 2017 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15005 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 3:18 PM
Reserved
Feb 7, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 27, 2017, 3:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:21 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 10, 2017, 12:00 AM