CVE-2017-2620

CriticalCVSS 9.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) before 2.8 built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787CWE-125

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 27, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-2620: Critical severity, CVSS 9.9 | Vulnix