Medium severity6.0OSV Advisory· Published Mar 23, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-1544
CVE-2023-1544
Description
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to allocate and initialize a huge number of page tables to be used as a ring of descriptors for CQ and async events, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and crash of QEMU.
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Affected products
18- osv-coords16 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3
< 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1+ 15 more
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.138.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-81.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-81.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.46.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
- lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg00206.htmlnvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1544nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00042.htmlnvd
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0005/nvd
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