CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4453
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.6.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90928 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336650 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90928 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336650 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory