Medium severity · published Aug 3, 2023
CVE-2023-3180
A flaw was found in the QEMU virtual crypto device while handling data encryption/decryption requests in virtio_crypto_handle_sym_req
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the QEMU virtual crypto device while handling data encryption/decryption requests in virtio_crypto_handle_sym_req. There is no check for the value of `src_len` and `dst_len` in virtio_crypto_sym_op_helper, potentially leading to a heap buffer overflow when the two values differ.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 14% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
38 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
before 8.1.0; 8.1.0; 8.1.0; 8.1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3180
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3180
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3180
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222424
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00006.html
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MURWGXDIF2WTDXV36T6HFJDBL632AO7R/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230831-0008/
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