CVE-2017-2615

Published Jul 3, 2018

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
9.1
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
2.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
9
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-125

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