ALPINE-CVE-2017-2615

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CVE-2017-2615
Published: 03 Jul 2018, 01:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:40

Vulnerability Summary

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

Timeline

03 Jul 2018, 01:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:40
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•qemu

    < 2.8.1-r1 | < 2.8.1.1-r0 | < 2.8.1-r1 | < 2.8.1-r1 | < 2.8.1-r1 | < 2.8.1-r1

  • alpine•xen

    < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.6.3-r8 | < 4.6.3-r10 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5 | < 4.7.1-r5

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