CVE-2016-7170 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7170?

CVE-2016-7170 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Dec 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to cursor.mask[] and cursor.image[] array sizes when processing a DEFINE_CURSOR svga command.

Weakness: CWE-129

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7170?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7170?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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

Is CVE-2016-7170 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7170 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-2016-7170, GHSA-g884-2vqj-jrfw, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7170.