CVE-2016-9603
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited from the same network segment with a low-privilege account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 4.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.5 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 4.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-122
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Qemu < 2.9.0
- Citrix Xenserver 6.0.2
- Citrix Xenserver 6.2.0
- Citrix Xenserver 6.5
- Citrix Xenserver 7.0
- Citrix Xenserver 7.1
- Redhat Openstack 5.0
- Redhat Openstack 6.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Raw vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96893
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038023
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0985
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0987
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0988
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9603
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX221578
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96893
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038023
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984