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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2615: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 21, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemugentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xengentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools
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