CVE-2016-10029

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
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: 2017-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with Virtio GPU Device emulator support allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and process crash) via a scanout id in a VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT command larger than num_scanouts.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.6.2

References

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2fe760554eb3769d70f608a158474f
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=acfc4846508a02cc4c83aa27799fd7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94978
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037526
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2fe760554eb3769d70f608a158474f
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=acfc4846508a02cc4c83aa27799fd7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94978
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037526

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