CWE
617
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2017-13673

First published: Tue Aug 29 2017(Updated: )

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the VGA display emulator support is vulnerable to an assert failure issue. It could occur while updating graphics display, due to miscalculating region for dirty bitmap snapshot in split screen mode. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -&gt; <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05333.html">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05333.html</a> Reference: ---------- -&gt; <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/30/4">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/30/4</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
QEMU qemu=2.8.0
QEMU qemu=2.9.0
debian/qemu
1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8
1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u11
1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3
1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2
1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u3
1:8.1.2+ds-1
1:8.2.0+ds-1

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