CVE-2008-4539

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069
• http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29129
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33350
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35031
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35062
• http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799
• http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html
• http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html
• http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069
• http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29129