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CVE-2018-17958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• QEMU: through 3.0.1
• RedHat Virtualization: 4.0
• RedHat Virtualization Manager: 4.3

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105556
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2553
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00023.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03269.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/76
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4454
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105556
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425

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