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CVE-2018-18438

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed...

5.5 MediumFix available

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.44%Down 0.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.5

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
CVE-2018-18438
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-190
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
CVE-2018-18438
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-10166 No score

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
EUVD-2018-10166
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5g5x-38wg-3rxr 5.5

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed...

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
GHSA-5g5x-38wg-3rxr
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-190
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.5

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
CVE-2018-18438
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2018-18438 5.5

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18438
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVSUSE-SU-2018:3975-1 No score

Security update for kvm

This update for kvm fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed NE2000 NIC emulation support that is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1110910).
  • CVE-2018-15746: Fixed qemu-seccomp.c that might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread (bsc#1106222).
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111006).
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111010).
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed qemu_deliver_packet_iov in net/net.c that accepts packet sizes greater than INT_MAX, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (bsc#1111013)
  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue that was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin. It could occur during migration if the 'msg_len' field has an invalid value. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1114422).
  • CVE-2018-18438: Fixed integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value (bnc#1112185).
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:3975-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:3987-1 No score

Security update for kvm

This update for kvm fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed NE2000 NIC emulation support that is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1110910).
  • CVE-2018-15746: Fixed qemu-seccomp.c that might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread (bsc#1106222).
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111006).
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111010).
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed qemu_deliver_packet_iov in net/net.c that accepts packet sizes greater than INT_MAX, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (bsc#1111013)
  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue that was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin. It could occur during migration if the 'msg_len' field has an invalid value. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1114422).
  • CVE-2018-18438: Fixed integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value (bnc#1112185).
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:3987-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:0825-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue that was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin. It could occur during migration if the 'msg_len' field has an invalid value. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1114423).
  • CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)
  • CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow in Bluetooth routines allows memory corruption (bsc#1117756).
  • CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which allows memory corruption (bsc#1112188).
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111011).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201).
  • CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962: Fixed insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs (XSA-275)(bsc#1115040).
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed qemu_deliver_packet_iov in net/net.c that accepts packet sizes greater than INT_MAX, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (bsc#1111014)
  • Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196)
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111007).
  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow issue (bsc#1110924).
  • CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that could have caused conflicts with shadow paging (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).
  • CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336).
  • Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140).
  • Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).
  • CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:0825-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:0827-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).
  • CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140)
  • Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).
  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds msg buffer access which could lead to denial of service (bsc#1114423).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201).
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the rtl8139 component (bsc#1111007)
  • CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)
  • CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).
  • CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).
  • CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047).
  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924).
  • CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow malicious 64bit PV guests to cause a host crash (bsc#1127400).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack (bsc#1126198).
  • Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)
  • CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which could lead to memory corruption (bsc#1112188).

Other issues fixed:

  • Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)
  • Fixed an issue where XEN SLE12-SP1 domU hangs on SLE12-SP3 HV1108940 (bsc#1108940).
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:0827-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:13921-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Security vulnerabilities fixed:

  • CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)
  • CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)
  • CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)
  • CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).
  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1114423)
  • Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read(), which allowed for memory corruption. (bsc#1112188)
  • CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336)
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the rtl8139 component (bsc#1111007)
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014)
  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924)

Other bugs fixed:

  • Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)
  • Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)
  • Fixed crashing VMs when migrating between dom0 hosts (bsc#1031382)
  • Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:13921-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:14011-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)
  • CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin (bsc#1114423).
  • CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).
  • CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which could allow memory corruption (bsc#1112188).
  • CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)
  • CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014)
  • Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196).
  • CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow which could lead to buffer overflow (bsc#1111007).
  • CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924).
  • CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that could have caused conflicts with shadow paging (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).
  • CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988).
  • Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).
  • Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140).
  • Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).
  • CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:14011-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Debian:12
before 1:3.1+dfsg-1
1:3.1+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:13
before 1:3.1+dfsg-1
1:3.1+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:14
before 1:3.1+dfsg-1
1:3.1+dfsg-1
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1.4.2-60.18.2
1.4.2-60.18.2
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1.4.2-60.18.2
1.4.2-60.18.2
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1.4.2-53.26.2
1.4.2-53.26.2
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1.4.2-53.26.2
1.4.2-53.26.2
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 1.4.2-53.26.2
1.4.2-53.26.2
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4.5.5_28-22.58.1
4.5.5_28-22.58.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4.5.5_28-22.58.1
4.5.5_28-22.58.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 15 CVEs
before 4.4.4_40-22.77.1
4.4.4_40-22.77.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 4.4.4_38-61.40.1
4.4.4_38-61.40.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 4.4.4_38-61.40.1
4.4.4_38-61.40.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 4.4.4_38-61.40.1
4.4.4_38-61.40.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.30.1
4.2.5_21-45.30.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2018-18438 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Qemu, published October 19, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.44%, the 38th percentile. Fixed in qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-1.

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