Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007039
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (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 Use of Uninitialized Resource. The megasas_dcmd_cfg_read function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, uses an uninitialized variable, which allows local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) command.

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