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CVE-2018-17962

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.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
• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7-0
• QEMU: 2.1.0, 2.8.0, 2.12.0
• RedHat Linux: 6.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 15

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03268.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3826-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4338
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17962
• https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2018-17962.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17962/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

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