Security readout for executives and security teams
This vulnerability affects QEMU’s VNC display handling. A user already inside a virtual machine could trigger memory corruption during display refresh, potentially crashing the QEMU process and disrupting that VM or service. Exposure is most likely on virtualization hosts running affected QEMU builds with VNC display functionality. The bundle names QEMU and Red Hat advisories, but does not fully enumerate all downstream distributions or supported package versions. Handle through normal vulnerability remediation unless the organization runs many legacy QEMU hosts or high-availability VM workloads. Business risk is mainly service disruption from a guest-triggered QEMU crash, with no active exploitation evidence in the provided sources. Mitigation focus: Apply vendor-supported QEMU updates that include the referenced upstream fixes.; Use Red Hat errata packages where Red Hat distributions are affected.; If patching is blocked, seek vendor guidance for supported interim controls..
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.4 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
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CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L2.32.7Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.0 score
5.4MediumVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bea60dd7679364493a0d7f5b54316c767cf894efCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- RHSA-2017:1206CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9f64916da20eea67121d544698676295bbb105a7CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2633CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- RHSA-2017:1441CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2017:1856CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2017:1205CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
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