From ${URL} : 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 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. Upstream patch -------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00015.html It fixes -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d3532a0db02296e687711b8cdc7791924efccea0 Reference: ---------- -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418200 This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc. CVE-2017-2615 was assigned to this issue by Red Hat Inc. @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.
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This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201702-28 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-28 by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).
