CVE-2014-8106

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA emulator (hw/display/cirrus_vga.c) in QEMU before 2.2.0 allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1320.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.1.2; 2.1.0, 2.1.0-rc0, 2.1.0-rc1, 2.1.0-rc2, 2.1.0-rc3, 2.1.0-rc5 (+1)

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bf25983345ca44aec3dd92c57142be45452bd38a
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d3532a0db02296e687711b8cdc7791924efccea0
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154656.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-12/msg00508.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0643.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0795.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0867.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0868.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0891.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60364

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