Fixed
Created: May 17, 2016
Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Jun 19, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.6
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace
The VGA module in QEMU improperly performs bounds checking on banked access to video memory, which allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host by changing access modes after setting the bank register, aka the Dark Portal issue.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-3710