CVE-2017-2633

Summary

CVECVE-2017-2633
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-27 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:43:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.qemu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff git.qemu.org
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff git.qemu.org
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.qemu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
QEMU CVE-2017-2633 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2017-2633 Qemu: VNC: memory corruption due to unchecked resolution limit MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
1425939 – (CVE-2017-2633) CVE-2017-2633 Qemu: VNC: memory corruption due to unchecked resolution limit CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378194 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for qemu-guest-agent (VZLSA-2017:1206)
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