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CVE-2017-15289

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 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: 2017-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

The mode4and5 write functions in hw/display/cirrus_vga.c in Qemu allow local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation.

Affected products

• QEMU: through 2.10.2

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/12/16
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101262
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3368
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3369
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3466
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3470
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3471
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3472
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3473
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3474
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0516
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501290

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