VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-2615

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references