CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The QXL display driver in QXL Virtual GPU 0.1.0 allows local users to cause
a denial of service (guest crash or hang) via a SPICE connection that
prevents other threads from obtaining the qemu_mutex mutex. NOTE: some of
these details are obtained from third party information.
Author | Note |
---|---|
mdeslaur | needs qemu-kvm patch (included in 1.0) http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commit;h=5ff4e36c oneiric and precise don’t have spice enabled in the qemu-kvm build. This probably only has an impact in environments where a precise guest is running on a host with spice enabled, and recent enough to supports async io. Downgrading priority to low. |
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 11.10 | noarch | xserver-xorg-video-qxl | < 0.0.14-1ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | xserver-xorg-video-qxl | < 0.0.16-2ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |