cvelistv5 - CVE-2016-4964

CVE-2016-4964

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-12-10 00:00

Modified

2024-08-06 00:46

Severity ?

Summary

The mptsas_fetch_requests function in hw/scsi/mptsas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, and CPU consumption or QEMU process crash) via vectors involving s->state.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06630554ccbdd25780aa03c3548aaff1eb56dffd
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/4	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/7	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04027.html	Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
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CVE-2016-4964

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

gsd-2016-4964

Vulnerability from gsd

ghsa-wr7c-c22q-3392

Vulnerability from github

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