CVE-2017-2620

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) before 2.8 built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on 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

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-3`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-3`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-3`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-3`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-3`

References

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

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