DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1544

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2023-1544
Downstream
DLA-4144-1
Published: 23 Mar 2023, 20:15
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:25

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
6.3 MEDIUM
3.1 (osv_debian)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Mar 2023, 20:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:25
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • debian•qemu

    < 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u4 | < 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u3 | < 1:8.2.0+ds-1 | < 1:8.2.0+ds-1

References (1)