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CVE-2014-3689 (GCVE-0-2014-3689)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-14 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/62144 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/62143 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3067 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/60923 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.osvdb.org/114397 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2014-10-15 00:00
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