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.
Published: 2023-03-23
Score: 6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4144-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-23779 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6567-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Qemu rdma
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:qemu:rdma:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Qemu rdma
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:27:58.423Z

Reserved: 2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-1544

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:27:58.423Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-23T20:15:14.497

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:15:59.780

Link: CVE-2023-1544

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-1544 - Bugzilla

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