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Bug 629348 (CVE-2017-13672) - <app-emulation/qemu-2.10.0: vga: OOB read access during display update
Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.10.0: vga: OOB read access during display update
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-13672
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa+ cve]
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Reported: 2017-08-30 07:53 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2018-04-08 23:32 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-08-30 07:53:22 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the VGA display emulator support is vulnerable
to an out-of-bounds read access issue. It could occur while reading VGA memory
to update graphics display.

A privileges user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu
process on the host resulting in DoS situation.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev 2018-02-11 20:40:50 UTC 
Fixed a while ago. No versions in the tree are affected any more.
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2018-04-08 23:32:01 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201804-08 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-08
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).