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CVE-2017-5931

Qemu: virtio: integer overflow in handling virtio-crypto requests

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 10, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 3.8
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound