CVE-2017-13672

Publication date 1 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	17.10 artful	Fixed 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.5
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
qemu-kvm	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

artful has first commit, not the two others complex backport, not going to fix this in xenial and earlier

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=3d90c6254863693a6b13d918d2b8682e08bbc681 Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=28f77de26a4f9995458ddeb9d34bb06c0193bdc9 Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=115788d7a70e9ae255511ca00fc69cce06967472

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3575-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
20 February 2018