CVE-2023-40360

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

QEMU through 8.0.4 accesses a NULL pointer in nvme_directive_receive in hw/nvme/ctrl.c because there is no check for whether an endurance group is configured before checking whether Flexible Data Placement is enabled.

Affected products

QEMU: from 8.0.0 through 8.0.4

References

https://gitlab.com/birkelund/qemu/-/commit/6c8f8456cb0b239812dee5211881426496da7b98
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1815
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0004/
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/security.html
https://gitlab.com/birkelund/qemu/-/commit/6c8f8456cb0b239812dee5211881426496da7b98
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1815
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0004/
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/security.html

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