CVE-2023-1544 — Qemu: pvrdma: out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read()

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Not supplied / Not supplied	unaffected 8.2.0-rc0 before *

CWE

CWE-125

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180364
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.html