CVE-2016-9921

NameCVE-2016-9921
DescriptionQuick emulator (Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while copying VGA data when cirrus graphics mode was set to be VGA. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance on the host, resulting in DoS.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1497-1, DLA-764-1, DLA-765-1
Debian Bugs847960

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8fixed
buster (security)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5fixed
trixie1:8.2.1+ds-2fixed
sid1:8.2.2+ds-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u19DLA-764-1
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7DLA-1497-1
qemusource(unstable)1:2.8+dfsg-1847960
qemu-kvmsourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u19DLA-765-1
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-12/msg00442.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334398
Fixed by: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4299b90e9ba9ce5ca9024572804ba751aa1a7e70 (v2.8.0-rc3)
CVE for the "'cirrus_get_bpp' returns zero(0), which could lead to a divide by zero" issue.

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