Reachable Assertion Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1367138
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Aug 2017

Introduced: 24 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13673  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 qemu-guest-agent.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The vga display update in mis-calculated the region for the dirty bitmap snapshot in case split screen mode is used causing a denial of service (assertion failure) in the cpu_physical_memory_snapshot_get_dirty function.