CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4539
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.
Affected configurations
• kvm qumranet kvm (<= 81)
• qemu qemu (< 0.10.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.10
• debian debian linux 4.0
• debian debian linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069 git.kernel.dk
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25073 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29129 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33350 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35031 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35062 Third Party Advisory
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069 git.kernel.dk
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25073 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29129 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33350 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35031 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35062 Third Party Advisory
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html Third Party Advisory