CVE-2016-6351 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-QEMUKVM-620181
published7 Sept 2016
disclosed7 Sept 2016

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Introduced: 7 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6351 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The esp_do_dma function in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with ESP/NCR53C9x controller emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving DMA read into ESP command buffer.