CVE-2016-2858
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 7, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 6, 2016
Description
QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20160306 Re: CVE request Qemu: rng-random: arbitrary stack based allocation leading to corruptionmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956
- GLSA-201604-01vendor-advisory
- 84134vdb-entry
- USN-2974-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160304 CVE request Qemu: rng-random: arbitrary stack based allocation leading to corruptionmailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security updatemailing-list
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