CVE-2017-13672
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors
02 Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.95% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 61.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-09-01 13:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-08-24
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 32a112682b194b1a30bf7ac18fe4b2ef12865802fcead5101b11c0ba66a8621e
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:2162https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2162
- lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20170824 [PATCH] vga: stop passing pointers to vga_draw_line* functionshttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:0816https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816
- www.debian.orgDSA-3991http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:1104https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:1113https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1113
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3575-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486560
- www.securityfocus.com100540http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100540
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170830 CVE-2017-13672 Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display updatehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/30/3
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1074http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00042.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- qemu No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- qemu No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.