FKIE_CVE-2016-7421

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-10 00:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:53
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d251157ac1928191af851d199a9ff255d330bec9
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92998Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03609.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d251157ac1928191af851d199a9ff255d330bec9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92998Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03609.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
debian debian_linux 8.0

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:53:02.180",
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