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CVE-2018-5683

Public on 2018-01-23
Modified on 2018-06-11
Description

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA emulator of QEMU. It could occur in vga_draw_text routine, while updating display area for a vnc client. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 qemu-kvm 2018-06-08 18:29 ALAS-2018-1034
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu-kvm 2018-06-07 23:41 ALAS2-2018-1034

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.3 AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H