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Feast day May 9

D Dark Portal CVE-2016-3710
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Saint Dark Portal

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
May 9 2016
CVE
CVE-2016-3710

The VGA module in QEMU improperly performs bounds checking on banked access to video memory, which allows local guest OS administrators to execute arbitrary code on the host by changing access modes after setting the bank register, aka the "Dark Portal" issue.

Sources: powerofcommunity.net · web.archive.org · blog.betamao.me · openwall.com

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