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Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1803091521260.21217@wniryva>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:25:36 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
Subject: CVE-2018-7858 Qemu: cirrus: OOB access when updating vga display

   Hello,

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 updating VGA 
display, after guest has adjusted the display dimensions.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process 
resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
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   -> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg02174.html

This issue was reported by Ross Lagerwall of citrix.com.

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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