CVE-2023-5088

high

Description

A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.

References

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247283

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5088

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2962

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2135

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-03

Updated: 2024-09-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High