CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5338
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The (1) esp_reg_read and (2) esp_reg_write functions in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors related to the information transfer buffer.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.6.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ff589551c8e8e9e95e211b9d8daafb4ed39f1aec git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91079 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01507.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ff589551c8e8e9e95e211b9d8daafb4ed39f1aec git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91079 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01507.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory