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CVE-2018-18438

Description

From CVE.org

Qemu has integer overflows because IOReadHandler and its associated functions use a signed integer data type for a size value.

Statement

The maintainer audited the code and determined that no memory corruption is possible using this flaw. Patches were applied upstream to prevent future changes introducing such flaws, but the issues identified by this CVE were determined to not constitute a vulnerability.

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Arash Tohidi for reporting this issue.

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