CVE-2016-9603 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-9603

Vendor Qemu
Product Qemu:
Weakness CWE-122
Published July 27, 2018
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

5.5/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 27, 2018 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated