CVE-2016-2858

medium

Description

QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption.

References

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More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-04-07

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00124

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