CVE-2023-6683

medium

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. The qemu_clipboard_request() function can be reached before vnc_server_cut_text_caps() was called and had the chance to initialize the clipboard peer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could allow a malicious authenticated VNC client to crash QEMU and trigger a denial of service.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240223-0001/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254825

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6683

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-01-12

Updated: 2024-04-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium