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CVE-2008-4539 at MITRE

Description

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.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 435135, 448551

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE 10.3
  • qemu >= 0.10.1-0.1

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