UBUNTU-CVE-2023-6693

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-6693

    Published: 2 Jan 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-6693
    Aliases:
    USN-6954-1

    Summary:

    Details: A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled. This could allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables allocated on the stack. Specifically, the `out_sg` variable could be used to read a part of process memory and send it to the wire, causing an information leak.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-6693, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6693, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-01/msg00045.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6693, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6954-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/qemu@1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22?arch=source&distro=jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22

    Affected versions

    1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High