Resource Exhaustion Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.6+dfsg-3.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (30th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-518638
- published 2 Aug 2016
- disclosed 2 Aug 2016
Introduced: 2 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-5403 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 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.
The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5403
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-184.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358359
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1585.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1586.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1606.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1607.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1652.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1653.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1654.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1655.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1756.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1763.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1943.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92148
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036476
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5403
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2