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QEMU · VGA

QEMU VGA: heap out-of-bounds write

  • Identifier: CVE-2026-17516
  • Disclosed:
  • Status: Confirmed ✓
  • Credit: Warisjeet Singh

A bounds check in the VGA renderer compares text-mode characters against graphics-mode pixels, so the resize is skipped: 960 bytes of guest-controlled palette past a 96-byte heap buffer, on every refresh, on a default machine.