Resource Management Errors Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.7.0-rc0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006889
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-4453  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.7.0-rc0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1