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Debian: CVE-2018-5683: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2018
Added
May 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The vga_draw_text function in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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