CVE-2016-4453

Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 30, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.3
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')