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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-2615: ELSA-2017-0396: qemu-kvm security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-2615: ELSA-2017-0396: qemu-kvm security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/24/2017
Modified
08/06/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-img
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

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