Divide By Zero Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1360291
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Oct 2016

Introduced: 18 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-9921  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-369  (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.

Quick emulator (Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while copying VGA data when cirrus graphics mode was set to be VGA. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance on the host, resulting in DoS.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1