CVE-2008-5714

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-11-23
CWE:
CWE-193
Bugzilla:
481376: CVE-2008-5714 qemu: off-by-one error in monitor.c causing VNC passwords to be truncated after 7th character

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5714 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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