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CVE-2016-9921

Qemu: display: cirrus_vga: a divide by zero in cirrus_do_copy

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 18, 2016

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

Quick emulator (Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while copying VGA data when cirrus graphics mode was set to be VGA. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance on the host, 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 3.0 · 3
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

CWE-369 · Divide By Zero