VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3712

medium
Published 2016-05-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Integer overflow in the VGA module in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by editing VGA registers in VBE mode.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.6+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.5.1"}
qemuqemu2.6.0
citrixxenserver{"endIncluding":"7.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

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

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