ubuntu · CVE-2016-3712

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:00:01 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3712 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (qemu, qemu-kvm), 10 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): DNE 4, released 4, needs-triage 2.

Description:

Integer overflow in the VGA module in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by editing VGA registers in VBE mode.

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