Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7980  

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds r/w access issue. 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.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds r/w access issue. 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.

AVG-938 qemu 2.8.0-1 2.8.1-1 High Fixed

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