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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-10029: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-10029: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with Virtio GPU Device emulator support allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and process crash) via a scanout id in a VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT command larger than num_scanouts.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

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