Vulnerability CVE-2023-6683


Published: 2024-01-12

Description:
A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. The qemu_clipboard_request() function can be reached before vnc_server_cut_text_caps() was called and had the chance to initialize the clipboard peer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could allow a malicious authenticated VNC client to crash QEMU and trigger a denial of service.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6683
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254825

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