CVE-2018-17962

moderate-risk
Published 2018-10-09

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.

Do I need to act?

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0.26% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (15)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Suse Oracle Canonical Qemu

References (15)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Exploit https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03268.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4338
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17962
Third Party Advisory https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2018-17962.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17962/
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Exploit https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03268.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4338
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate