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CVE-2016-9603
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-27T21:29:00.290 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:19.510

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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