CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4964
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/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
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.6.2)
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06630554ccbdd25780aa03c3548aaff1eb56dffd git.qemu.org
- 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 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04027.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06630554ccbdd25780aa03c3548aaff1eb56dffd git.qemu.org
- 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 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04027.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory