CVE-2016-4454

Qemu: display: vmsvga: out-of-bounds read in vmsvga_fifo_read_raw() routine

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.8

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · May 30, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.8
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read