CVE-2023-1544 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-1544

Qemu: pvrdma: out-of-bounds read in pvrdma_ring_next_elem_read()

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank SorryMybad (Kunlun Lab) for reporting this issue.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Unknown
Vulnerable Versions:
8.2.0-rc0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 23rd, 2023
Last Modified: November 3rd, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)