CVE-2018-5683

Description

The vga_draw_text function in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg02597.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2162

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102518

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/15/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3