CVE-2016-9603

CVSS V2 High 9 CVSS V3 Critical 9.9
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9603
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-07-27T21:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-08-04T17:15:35
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.9.0
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.2.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 9
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.9
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.1
  • Impact Score
  • 6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9603 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX221578 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1441 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1206 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1205 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0988 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0987 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0985 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0984 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0983 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0982 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0981 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0980 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038023 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96893 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9603
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9603
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:58:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 10:37:25 2018-07-27T21:29Z 2018-07-27T21:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 10:37:25 2021-08-04T17:15:35 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 10:37:25 Modified Vulnerability Status updated