Medium
Security advisory
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-13672
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update.
osv:CVE-2017-13672
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/",
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