vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7980: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 2, 2017
Added
May 11, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator in Quick Emulator (Qemu) 2.8 and earlier allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a VNC client updating its display after a VGA operation.

Solutions

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