VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7980

high
Published 2017-07-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator in Quick Emulator (Qemu) 2.8 and earlier allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a VNC client updating its display after a VGA operation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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
suse slesaffected
redhat rhel7.0not-affected
redhat rhel6.0not-affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.04affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.8+dfsg-4
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.8+dfsg-4
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.8+dfsg-4
debian debiansidfixed1:2.8+dfsg-4
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.8+dfsg-4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.8"}
redhat redhatopenstack6.0
redhat redhatopenstack7.0
redhat redhatopenstack8
redhat redhatopenstack9
redhat redhatopenstack10
redhat redhatopenstack5.0
redhat redhatvirtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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