UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8106

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8106

    Published: 8 Dec 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8106
    Aliases:
    USN-2439-1

    Summary:

    Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA emulator (hw/display/cirrus_vga.c) in QEMU before 2.2.0 allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1320.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8106, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-12/msg00508.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2439-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8106

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9

    Affected versions

    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

    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