CVE-2017-2615
Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 3.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
References
21
- RHSA-2017:0329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2615 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1037804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0328 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 95990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201702-27 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0454 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20170201 [PATCH v3] cirrus: fix oob access issue (CVE-2017-2615) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0331 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201702-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0350 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0309 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220771 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-11776 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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