CVE-2014-3689: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.1.3

Published 2014-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.