Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006921
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6351  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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.

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