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high 7.2

CVE-2014-3689 json

The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via…

published 2014-11-14 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-3635

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1+dfsg-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3689

  • qemu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3689

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kvm SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 1.4.2-53.38.1
  • kvm SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.4.2-44.1
  • kvm SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA, SLES 11 SP3-LTSS 1.4.2-46.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 2.0.2-48.19.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP4 +1 more 4.4.4_02-32.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 4.5.2_06-7.1
  • kvm SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 1.4.2-60.34.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:14706-1SUSE-SU-2021:14704-1SUSE-SU-2016:1785-1SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1SUSE-SU-2016:1698-1SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3689 updated cvss 4.0

qemu: vmware_vga: insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-kvm-tools, libcacard-tools, qemu-kvm-common, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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