CVE-2023-5088

Publication date 3 November 2023

Last updated 9 June 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.4 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
25.10 questing
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:8.1.3+ds-1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu3.23.10.2
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
Fixed 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.42+esm5
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.47+esm6

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.4 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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