First published: Tue Jan 23 2018(Updated: )
The cirrus_invalidate_region function in hw/display/cirrus_vga.c in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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QEMU KVM | <=2.8.1.1 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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CVE-2017-18030 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability affecting QEMU.
To mitigate CVE-2017-18030, update QEMU to a version later than 2.8.1.1.
CVE-2017-18030 affects local OS guest privileged users on QEMU and Debian Linux 8.0.
Exploiting CVE-2017-18030 can lead to an out-of-bounds array access and crash the QEMU process.
CVE-2017-18030 was identified in January 2018.