CVE-2016-4964

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.6.2 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

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 (5)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06630554ccbdd25780aa03c3548aaff1eb56dffd

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/4

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/7

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04027.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Status published

Affected Products (2)

qemu/qemu < 2.6.2

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026