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CVE-2017-2633 — An out-of-bounds memory access issue was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 1

An out-of-bounds memory access issue was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 1.7.2 in the VNC display driver. This flaw could occur while refreshing the VNC display surface area in the 'vnc_refresh_server_surface'. A user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash th

CVSS
5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.56% (top 32.10%)
CWE
CWE-120
Published
2018-07-27T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T14:02:06.898Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

An out-of-bounds memory access issue was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 1.7.2 in the VNC display driver. This flaw could occur while refreshing the VNC display surface area in the 'vnc_refresh_server_surface'. A user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
QEMUQemu:1.7.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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