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CVE-2016-7170

Published: 9 September 2016

The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to cursor.mask[] and cursor.image[] array sizes when processing a DEFINE_CURSOR svga command.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
vmsvga_fifo_run() in 12.04's qemu-kvm is slightly different but
still looks to be affected

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 4.4

Status

Package Release Status
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needed

precise
Released (1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.31)
trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needed

precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30)
xenial
Released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)
yakkety
Released (1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=167d97a3def77ee2dbf6e908b0ecbfe2103977db