Insufficient Entropy Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.6+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-515248
- published 7 Apr 2016
- disclosed 7 Apr 2016
Introduced: 7 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-2858 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.6+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2858
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2858
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956