CVE-2016-9603

Summary

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
QEMUQemu:2.9affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-122: CWE-122

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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