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Debian: CVE-2017-14167: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 8, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in the load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
Title
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