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CVE-2017-16845
- Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
hw/input/ps2.c in Qemu does not validate 'rptr' and 'count' values during guest migration, leading to out-of-bounds access.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- QEMU: through 2.11.2
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101923
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02982.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3649-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101923
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02982.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3649-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213
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