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Red Hat: CVE-2017-15289: Moderate: qemu-kvm security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-15289: Moderate: qemu-kvm security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/16/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2017
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

The mode4and5 write functions in hw/display/cirrus_vga.c in Qemu allow local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-img
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

References

  • 101262
  • DSA-4213
  • CVE-2017-15289
  • RHSA-2017:3368
  • RHSA-2017:3369
  • RHSA-2017:3466
  • RHSA-2017:3470
  • RHSA-2017:3471
  • RHSA-2017:3472
  • RHSA-2017:3473
  • RHSA-2017:3474
  • RHSA-2018:0516
  • USN-3575-1
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