CVE-2016-9603
Medium
Description
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
Product
Qemu
PublishedJul 27, 2018
First seenJul 27, 2018
Weakness typeCWE-122CWE-122
How to fix
Update
- qemu qemu2.9.0 or later
Vendor advisories
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0985
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0987
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0988
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| qemu qemu | v < 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
| citrix xenserver | 6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1 | — |
| redhat openstack | 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8, 9, 10 | — |
| debian debian_linux | 7.0 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux_desktop | 6.0, 7.0 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux_server | 6.0, 7.0 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus | 7.3, 7.4 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus | 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux_workstation | 6.0, 7.0 | — |
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