CVE-2023-3255 Qemu: vnc: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service

2023-09-1316:12:52

CWE-835

redhat

www.cve.org

qemu

vnc

server

denial of service

inflate buffer

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

52.3%

JSON

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "virt-devel:rhel",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "8100020240314161907.e155f54d",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm",
        "status": "unaffected"
      }
    ],
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream",
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "virt:rhel",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "8100020240314161907.e155f54d",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm",
        "status": "unaffected"
      }
    ],
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream",
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "17:8.2.0-11.el9_4",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm",
        "status": "unaffected"
      }
    ],
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "qemu-kvm-ma",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ]
  },
  {
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "packageName": "virt:av/qemu-kvm",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8"
    ]
  }
]