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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4539

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4539

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/29/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-sletc-release

References

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