suse · CVE-2016-9603

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:48:04 UTC Updated: 2025-11-05 04:15:30 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9603 severity low: SUSE including 112 source package names (kvm-1.4.2-53.11.1, kvm-1.4.2-60.3.1, …), 276 product×package rows across 33 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (33 product lines)): Fixed 230, Known Not Affected 46.

Description:

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.

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