CVE-2016-9603

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

CWE-122

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96893
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038023
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX221578
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0985
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0987
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0988
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9603
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205

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