CVE-2008-4539
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (45th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4520)
- Published
- December 29, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4520 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- kvm qumranet / kvm
- qemu / qemu
References
- http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25073(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29129(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33350(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34642(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35031(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35062(Third Party Advisory)
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html
- http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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