Qemu, when built with VNC display driver support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arithmetic exception and…

Description

Qemu, when built with VNC display driver support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arithmetic exception and application crash) via crafted SetPixelFormat messages from a client.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-369 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-369 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289541 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20151208 Re: CVE request: Qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4c65fed8bdf96780735dbdb92a8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3469 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• DSA-3470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• DSA-3471 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 78708 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:20 UTC.