CVE-2018-7550 (GCVE-0-2018-7550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:31
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Summary
The load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in Quick Emulator (aka QEMU) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access.
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CWE
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2018-02-28 00:00
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