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CVE-2018-5683

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Date: January 23, 2018

The vga_draw_text function in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.0

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5683

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5683

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5683

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2162

Url: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg02597.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-5683

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1104

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/15/2

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102518

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-5683

Severity Score

6.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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