CVE-2017-15289

medium

Published 2017-10-16 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

The mode4and5 write functions in hw/display/cirrus_vga.c in Qemu allow local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

60%

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.11+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.11+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.11+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.11+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.11+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.10.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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