CVE-2008-4539

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to…

published December 29, 2008

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00537 · 44.2th percentile
Published
2008-12-29T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 15:00Z
    Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to…
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