CVE-2023-3180

Publication date 3 August 2023

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU virtual crypto device while handling data encryption/decryption requests in virtio_crypto_handle_sym_req. There is no check for the value of `src_len` and `dst_len` in virtio_crypto_sym_op_helper, potentially leading to a heap buffer overflow when the two values differ.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:7.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.16
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.28
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 2.8.0

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.0 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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