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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-02T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:06.484Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-2615

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-03T01:29:00.393

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:23:50.190

Link: CVE-2017-2615

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-01-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2615 - Bugzilla