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CVE-2016-7155

medium

Description

hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or infinite loop, and QEMU process crash) via a crafted page count for descriptor rings.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg00050.html

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92772

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/07/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/06/2

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7f61f4690dd153be98900a2a508b88989e692753

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-10

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00111