CVE-2016-9603

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    CVE-2016-9603

    Published: 27 Jul 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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 packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Affected versions

    v2.9.0-rc5
    v2.9.0-rc4
    v2.9.0-rc3
    v2.9.0-rc2
    v2.9.0-rc1
    v2.9.0-rc0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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