CVE-2017-2615
CRITICAL9.1EPSS 1.0%qemu - security update
Published: 7/3/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-2615DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2615
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.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/qemufrom 0, < 2.8.1-r1
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.7.1-r5
- Debian/qemufrom 0, < 1:2.8+dfsg-3
- Debian/qemufrom 0, < 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u20
- Debian/qemu-kvmfrom 0, < 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u20
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |