CVE-2016-9603

Qemu: cirrus: heap buffer overflow via vnc connection

Published Jul 27, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 5.5 Medium EPSS 4.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1035-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-939-1 qemu-kvm security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1270-1 xen security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1497-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10407 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3261-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3268-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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