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CVE-2017-13672

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-13672 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in QEMU's VGA display emulator, allowing a local privileged guest OS user to crash the QEMU process, leading to a denial of service. This affects QEMU installations, particularly those within Debian environments. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 5.5, the vulnerability requires local access and low privileges, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current exploitation risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (15)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-156.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.10.0-21.el7
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-13672Low

QEMU: vga: OOB read access during display update

Aug 24, 2017

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00042.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0816
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1104
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1113
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2162
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html
PatchVendor Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3575-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3991
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/08/30/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100540
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry