CVE-2018-20125

Publication date 20 December 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c in QEMU allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or excessive memory allocation) in create_cq_ring or create_qp_rings.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu-kvm 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
qemu 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu8.6
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

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

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