vulnerability
CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-9603: Important: qemu-kvm security update (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Mar 14, 2017 | Apr 20, 2017 | May 25, 2023 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 14, 2017
Added
Apr 20, 2017
Modified
May 25, 2023
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.
Solutions
centos-upgrade-qemu-guest-agentcentos-upgrade-qemu-imgcentos-upgrade-qemu-kvmcentos-upgrade-qemu-kvm-commoncentos-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginfocentos-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools
References
Rapid7 Labs
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