ALPINE-CVE-2016-9603

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CVE-2016-9603
Published: 27 Jul 2018, 21:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.9 CRITICAL
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jul 2018, 21:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•xen

    < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.6.3-r8 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0 | < 4.7.2-r0

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