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CVE-2017-13673 Qemu: vga: reachable assert failure during during display update


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:34:51 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the VGA display emulator support is vulnerable to an assert failure issue. It could occur while updating graphics display, due to miscalculating region for dirty bitmap snapshot in split screen mode.

A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04685.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486588

This issue was reported by David Buchanan.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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