CVE-2014-3689

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2014-11-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
QEMU: through 2.1.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/60923
http://secunia.com/advisories/62143
http://secunia.com/advisories/62144
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3067
http://www.osvdb.org/114397
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg261580.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60923
http://secunia.com/advisories/62143
http://secunia.com/advisories/62144
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066

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