CVE-2016-7170: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to cursor.mask[] and cursor.image[] array sizes when processing a DEFINE_CURSOR svga command.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.