CVE-2008-5714

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

Off-by-one error in monitor.c in Qemu 0.9.1 might make it easier for remote attackers to guess the VNC password, which is limited to seven characters where eight was intended.

Off-by-one error in monitor.c in Qemu 0.9.1 might make it easier for remote attackers to guess the VNC password, which is limited to seven characters where eight was intended.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-24 18:29:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:33:00

Affected Software

QEMU 0.9.1

0.9.1

References

[qemu-devel] 20081123 [PATCH] Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 chars

[qemu-devel] 20081210 Re: [RESEND] [PATCH v2] Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 chars

SUSE-SR:2009:002

SUSE-SR:2009:008

33568

34642

35062

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5966

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/monitor.c?root=qemu&r1=5966&r2=5965&pathrev=5966

33020

USN-776-1

qemu-monitor-weak-security(47683)

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