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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-842-1 qemu-kvm security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-845-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1497-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-11776 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3261-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-2615

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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

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