Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.8.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007109
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7423  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The mptsas_process_scsi_io_request function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSASRequest objects.

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