CVE-2017-2615 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2017-2615 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.01% · 77.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.01%

77.0th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	qemu	1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.10, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.9, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.8
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	qemu	2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	xen	4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.10, 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9, 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.7

Timeline

Feb 1, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
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Dec 25, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2615 third-party-advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00015.html third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3261-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2615 third-party-advisory

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