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.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6693 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580 | Issue Tracking Patch |
Information
Published : 2024-01-02 10:15
Updated : 2024-01-08 19:04
NVD link : CVE-2023-6693
Mitre link : CVE-2023-6693
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux
qemu
- qemu
CWE
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
