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CVE-2016-3712

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the VGA module in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by editing VGA registers in VBE mode.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Citrix XenServer: through 7.0
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Oracle Vm Server: 3.3, 3.4
• QEMU: through 2.5.1; 2.6.0-rc0, 2.6.0-rc1, 2.6.0-rc2, 2.6.0-rc3, 2.6.0-rc4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0621.html
• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX212736
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3573
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/09/4
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90314
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035794
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-179.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg01196.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html

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