CVE-2017-7718: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
  • Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1; version 2.9.0 only

Published 2017-04-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.