CVE-2023-1544 (GCVE-0-2023-1544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-23 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:27
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
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