| Name | CVE-2017-13672 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3991-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 873851 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.1.1+ds-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u3 | | DSA-3991-1 | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.10.0-1 | low | | 873851 |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - qemu <ignored> (Minor issue, root DoS, too complex to backport)
[wheezy] - qemu <postponed> (Can be fixed along in a future DSA)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <postponed> (Can be fixed along in a future DSA)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html
Fixed by https://git.qemu.org/gitweb.cgi?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=3d90c6254863693a6b13d918d2b8682e08bbc681
CentOS7 has a backport/upgrade(?) for their frankenstein version
http://vault.centos.org/7.6.1810/updates/Source/SPackages/qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.3.src.rpm