suse · CVE-2008-4539

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CVE-2008-4539 severity important: SUSE including 243 source package names (qemu-0.10.1-0.5.7.1, qemu-10.0.3-160000.1.2, …), 327 product×package rows across 22 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (22 product lines)): Fixed 327.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.