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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006982
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5338  (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 (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.

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