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CVE-2018-7858

Publication date 12 March 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Quick Emulator (aka QEMU), when built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and QEMU process crash) by leveraging incorrect region calculation when updating VGA display.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.1
17.10 artful
Fixed 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.6
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
qemu-kvm 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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