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Red Hat: CVE-2017-7980: Important: qemu-kvm security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 2, 2017
Added
May 9, 2017
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator in Quick Emulator (Qemu) 2.8 and earlier allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a VNC client updating its display after a VGA operation.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-qemu-guest-agentredhat-upgrade-qemu-imgredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvmredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-commonredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginforedhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

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