CVE-2018-17958

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-17958 · Published 09/10/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-17958 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting qemu (qemu), virtualization (redhat), virtualization manager (redhat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.3%, higher than 93.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
qemu qemu	`≤ 3.0.1`	No fix yet
virtualization redhat	`= 4.0`	No fix yet
virtualization manager redhat	`= 4.3`	No fix yet

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.

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In short

CVE-2018-17958 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting qemu (qemu), virtualization (redhat), virtualization manager (redhat).

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.3%, higher than 93.6% of all vulnerabilities.

No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

≤ 3.0.1

No fix yet

= 4.0

No fix yet

= 4.3

No fix yet

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