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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9603 Detail

Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96893 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038023 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0985 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0987 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0988 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9603 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX221578 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9603
NVD Published Date:
07/27/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.