ALPINE-CVE-2017-2620

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CVE-2017-2620
Published: 27 Jul 2018, 19:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:40

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, 19:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:40
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

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•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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