CVE-2016-7421
Published: 16 September 2016
The pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit process IO loop to the ring size.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 4.4
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30)
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Patches: Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d251157ac1928191af851d199a9ff255d330bec9 |
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qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Does not exist
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
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