Critical
Security advisory
hw/input/ps2.c in Qemu does not validate 'rptr' and 'count' values during guest migration, leading to out-of-bounds access.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16845
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
hw/input/ps2.c in Qemu does not validate 'rptr' and 'count' values during guest migration, leading to out-of-bounds access.
osv:CVE-2017-16845
Complete source record
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