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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-2620: xen Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-2620: xen Multiple issues

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) before 2.8 built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

References

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