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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:33:00 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: David Buchanan <d@...buchanan.co.uk>
Subject: CVE-2017-13672 Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update
Hello,
Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the VGA display emulator support is vulnerable
to an out-of-bounds read access issue. It could occur while reading VGA memory
to update graphics display.
A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu
process on the host resulting in DoS situation.
Upstream patch:
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-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html
Reference:
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-> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486560
This issue was reported by David Buchanan.
Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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