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CVE-2008-2382

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2382 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the VNC server in Qemu versions 0.9.1 and earlier, and KVM versions kvm-79 and earlier. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by sending a specially crafted message to the VNC server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32675 · Dec 22, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0662 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2382Moderate

qemu/kvm: remote DoS (infinite loop) via specially-crafted VNC message received by the domain

Dec 22, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
secunia.com / advisories/33293
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33303
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33350
secunia.com / advisories/33568
secunia.com / advisories/34642
secunia.com / advisories/35062
securityreason.com / securityalert/4803
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47561
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html
coresecurity.com / content/vnc-remote-dos
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499502/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/32910
Exploit
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-776-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3488
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3489