CVE-2007-1320 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2007-1320?

CVE-2007-1320 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 May 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the cirrus_invalidate_region function in the Cirrus VGA extension in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "attempting to mark non-existent regions as dirty," aka the "bitblt" heap overflow.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1320?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Fedoraproject Fedora Core, Opensuse Opensuse, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2007-1320?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2007-1320 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-1320 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1320, GHSA-g9wg-j7vq-xx6p.