CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7170
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-129
Description
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to cursor.mask[] and cursor.image[] array sizes when processing a DEFINE_CURSOR svga command.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• opensuse leap 42.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=167d97a3def77ee2dbf6e908b0ecbfe2103977db git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92904 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg01764.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=167d97a3def77ee2dbf6e908b0ecbfe2103977db git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92904 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg01764.html Patch, Third Party Advisory