VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8106

medium
Published 2014-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.6

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA emulator (hw/display/cirrus_vga.c) in QEMU before 2.2.0 allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1320.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.1+dfsg-9
debian debianbullseyefixed2.1+dfsg-9
debian debianforkyfixed2.1+dfsg-9
debian debiansidfixed2.1+dfsg-9
debian debiantrixiefixed2.1+dfsg-9

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.1.2"}
qemuqemu2.1.0
qemuqemu2.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.