CVE-2008-2382: Kvm Qumranet Kvm

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The protocol_client_msg function in vnc.c in the VNC server in (1) Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier and (2) KVM kvm-79 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain message.

Affected products

• Kvm Qumranet Kvm: up to and including 79; version 1 only; version 2 only; version 3 only; version 4 only; version 5 only; …
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 0.9.1; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.1.3 only; version 0.1.4 only; …

Published 2008-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.