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CVE-2017-2615
critical
Description
Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.
References
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220771
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-27
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00015.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2615
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037804
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95990
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/6
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0454.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0396.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0350.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0344.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0334.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0333.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0332.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0331.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0330.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0329.html