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CVE-2008-4539

Date: December 29, 2008

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.

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (23)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4539

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33350

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25073

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35031

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html

Url: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34642

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35062

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4539

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29129

Url: http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069

Url: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1

Url: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4539

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-4539

Date: December 29, 2008

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