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Debian: CVE-2017-5667: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-5667: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/16/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/19/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap access and crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving the data transfer length.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

References

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