CVE-2016-9922: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cirrus_do_copy function in hw/display/cirrus_vga.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when cirrus graphics mode is VGA, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving blit pitch values.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1; version 2.8.0 only

Published 2017-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.