The vga_draw_text function in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation.
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Score 6.0 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 6.0; sources differ by 0.0.
The vga_draw_text function in Qemu allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation.
January 23, 2018
November 21, 2024
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | qemu-utils (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.22) @ xenial | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.1 | 2018-07-10 | redhat |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7 | 2018-04-11 | redhat |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-156.el7 | 2018-04-10 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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