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CVE-2016-5338 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)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-620568
  • published14 Jun 2016
  • disclosed14 Jun 2016
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Introduced: 14 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5338  (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 (1) esp_reg_read and (2) esp_reg_write functions in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors related to the information transfer buffer.