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CVE-2017-7980 Qemu: display: cirrus: OOB r/w access issues in bitblt routines


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:47:36 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds r/w access issues. It could occur while copying VGA data via various bitblt functions.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS OR potentially execute arbitrary code on a host with privileges of Qemu process on the host.

Upstream patches:
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  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=026aeffcb4752054830ba203020ed6eb05bcaba8
  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffaf857778286ca54e3804432a2369a279e73aa7

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444371


This issue was independently reported by Jiangxin of PSIRT Huawei Inc. and Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

CVE-2017-7980 assigned via -> http://cveform.mitre.org/

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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