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CVE-2017-2615

Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue.

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Summary

Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • qemu display

    Version range not reported

References 21

rhn.redhat.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

securitytracker.com

lists.debian.org

securityfocus.com

security.gentoo.org

openwall.com

lists.gnu.org

support.citrix.com