CVE-2013-0241

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The QXL display driver in QXL Virtual GPU 0.1.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (guest crash or hang) via a SPICE connection that prevents other threads from obtaining the qemu_mutex mutex. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10, 12.04
Qxl Graphics Driver Project Xf86-Video-Qxl: 0.1.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0218.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52021
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:138
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/4
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1714-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906032
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81704
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0036
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0218.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52021
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:138

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