CVE-2016-9603 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2016-9603

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Qemu:
Vulnerable Versions:
2.9

Timeline

Official Publish: July 27th, 2018
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)