| Name | CVE-2016-9603 |
| Description | A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1035-1, DLA-1270-1, DLA-1497-1, DLA-939-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 857744 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u9 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 1:7.1+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
| xen (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | source | wheezy | 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u22 | DLA-1035-1 | ||
| qemu | source | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7 | DLA-1497-1 | ||
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.8+dfsg-4 | 857744 | ||
| qemu-kvm | source | wheezy | 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u21 | DLA-939-1 | ||
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| xen | source | wheezy | 4.1.6.lts1-12 | DLA-1270-1 | ||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.4.0-1 |
Xen switched to qemu-system in 4.4.0-1
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-211.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/14/2
Upstream patch http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=50628d3479e4f9aa97e323506856e394fe7ad7a6