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CVE-2017-2615
Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur…
Medium5.5EPSS 3.6%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (21)
- RHSA-2017:0329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2615 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1037804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0328 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 95990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201702-27 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0454 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20170201 [PATCH v3] cirrus: fix oob access issue (CVE-2017-2615) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0331 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201702-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0350 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0309 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220771 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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