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CVE-2008-4539

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

2 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:kvm_qumranet:kvm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 0.10.0
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-

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