CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2858
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-331
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.5.1.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-331 Insufficient Entropy weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 Third Party Advisory