CVE-2016-9603
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
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Description
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9603
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9603.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.