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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4454: qemu-kvm security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4454: qemu-kvm security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/01/2016
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
05/19/2020

Description

The vmsvga_fifo_read_raw function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information or cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) by changing FIFO registers and issuing a VGA command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-img
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common

References

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