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ELSA-2013-0218 Moderate: Oracle Linux xorg-x11-drv-qxl security update

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ELSA-2013-0218 Moderate: Oracle Linux xorg-x11-drv-qxl security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/01/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The QXL display driver in QXL Virtual GPU 0.1.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (guest crash or hang) via a SPICE connection that prevents other threads from obtaining the qemu_mutex mutex. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xorg-x11-drv-qxl

References

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