CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2016-9603
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
4.45%
Original NVD Description
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.
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