CVE-2016-9603

NameCVE-2016-9603
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1035-1, DLA-1270-1, DLA-1497-1, DLA-939-1
Debian Bugs857744

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
trixie, sid1:9.1.2+ds-1fixed
xen (PTS)bullseye4.14.6-1fixed
bullseye (security)4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1fixed
bookworm4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie, sid4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u22DLA-1035-1
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7DLA-1497-1
qemusource(unstable)1:2.8+dfsg-4857744
qemu-kvmsourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u21DLA-939-1
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(unfixed)
xensourcewheezy4.1.6.lts1-12DLA-1270-1
xensource(unstable)4.4.0-1

Notes

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

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