CVE-2016-7170

medium

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.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg01764.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92904

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/4

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=167d97a3def77ee2dbf6e908b0ecbfe2103977db

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium