CVE-2013-0241: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The QXL display driver in QXL Virtual GPU 0.1.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (guest crash or hang) via a SPICE connection that prevents other threads from obtaining the qemu_mutex mutex. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only
• Qxl Graphics Driver Project XF86-Video-Qxl: version 0.1.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2013-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.