CVE-2018-16847

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p44

Published

Nov 2, 2018 (Nov 2, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An OOB heap buffer r/w access issue was found in the NVM Express Controller emulation in QEMU. It could occur in nvme_cmb_ops routines in nvme device. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially run arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.

Vendors: qemu canonical
Products: qemu, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.5%)

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