Insufficient Entropy Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1351133
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Jan 2016

Introduced: 22 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-2858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-331  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 qemu-guest-agent.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.

CVSS Scores

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