CVE-2017-13673

Publication date 29 August 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The vga display update in mis-calculated the region for the dirty bitmap snapshot in case split screen mode is used causing a denial of service (assertion failure) in the cpu_physical_memory_snapshot_get_dirty function.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
qemu-kvm	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced by https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fec5e8c92becad223df9d972770522f64aafdb72

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=e65294157d4b69393b3f819c99f4f647452b48e3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H